Re: bake

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> Finnish both borrowed 'puu-' (I think it was) "tree" (cf.
> German 'Baum') and apparently the "bake" or "roast" word (though

the

> former looks like a Swedish loan).
>
> Torsten

According to Häkkinen, 'puu' tree, wood is an inherited word from
*puve. In Hungarian it's 'fa'.

Peter