Re: Raven words

2013/2/13, johnvertical@... <johnvertical@...>:

> Background: I've been exploring some evidence for a possible unknown Uralic
> substrate in Finnic. One feature of this hypothetical substrate would be *w
>> pp after a liquid, e.g. _kärppä_ "stoat" vs. PU *käDwä "weasel".
>
> One of the words of this shape in Finnish is _korppi_ "raven". This is
> normally analyzed as a loan from Scandinavian _korp_, and I see no obsctacle
> to this - this replaced the common Finnic word for the bird, *karnV, which
> is probably inherited Uralic. I however believe the Sc. word does not have a
> credible IE etymology (after all, k-p makes the very premise suspicious).
>

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Bhr.: there's no restriction to *DeRD-roots; even *DED is attested,
but in any case an intervening */R/ removes the 'suspicious'
phonotactic environment; so, *glb- is a welcome reconstruction