Re: Non-IE elements in Scandinavian

I'm no expert but isn't rar related to Latin 'rarus' and nes related
to 'nose' both of which are IE in origin?
Regards
David

--- In cybalist@egroups.com, "Thomas Nordengen" <thomasno@...> wrote:
> As a speaker of Norwegian, German and English, I have noticed that
> Norwegian (and the other north-germanic languages) have a wealth of
> words which don't exist in other languages. Certainly any language
> will have unique words, but there are just too many to be a
> coincidence.
>
> My theory is that when IE settlers came to Scandinavia, they had to
> live in peace and harmony with the aboriginal population because of
> the harsh climate here. To survive, they had to learn new skills
> from the natives. For a long period of time they lived side by
side,
> and the Indo-europeans took up a large number of native words.
Since
> very few words in modern Norwegian bear any resemblance to Uralic
> words, I doubt the pre-IE language was Uralic.
>
> What kind of language did they have? Would it be possible to get a
> glimpse of this (or these) ancient language(s) by searching modern
> Scandinavian languages and Icelandic for non-IE elements?
>
> Examples of unique Sc. words: fjell = mountain, jente = girl, hav =
> ocean, furu = pine, ekorn = squirrel, ørret = trout, tjern =
pond,
> rar = strange/funny, nes = tiny peninsula, skog = forest