Re: [tied] Re: "Will the 'real' linguist please stand up?"

>Burrow notes that some Finno-Ugric forms are borrowings from Indo-
>Iranian and not from Old Indo-Aryan (e.g.Finn. seta, '100; Sanskrit
>s'atam, Av. satem; Finn. arvo, 'value'; Sanskrit argha; Finn.
>sisar, 'sister'; Sanskrit svasar-, Av Xvanhar; Mordv. s'va, 'goat';
>Sanskrit cha_ga). The rule: Sanskrit s' = Iranian s, Finno-Ugric s';
>Sanskrit s = Iranian h, Finno-Ugric s. Witness initial h- of Hung
>aranya (Sanskrit hiran.ya).

Don't your examples contradict the claim they are supposed to prove? You
give examples and rules where FU = Sanskrit against Iranian. These can't be
used to prove FU loans did not come from Sanskrit.

Peter