From: Torsten
Message: 65366
Date: 2009-11-05
>It's not that bad. I think eg. *kam-t- belongs on the forest-steppe border, but *dr-an,W- belongs on the amber trail.
> > > What exactly is the "water transport theory" anyway? Torsten's
> > > latest renames it "amber trail theory", but I thought this was
> > > supposed to cover all IE-Uralic interactions, not just those
> > > near the Baltic Sea.
> >
> > Well, it shifts with my mood.
>
> I'd rather not call something of that sort a theory
>Somebody, I forgot the name, in the 19th century made up a number of technical terms in Estonian straight out of his head, eg. relv "weapon". I hope there weren't many people like that in PIEland.
> > BTW is Estonian 'rong' "train" an invented word or bona fide U or
> > FU?
> >
>
> It's not an old Uralic root at least. And while I don't have an
> Estonian etymological dictionary to confirm, its absence in Finnish
> points to being a neologism (ie. not even common Finnic).