From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 21459
Date: 2003-05-02
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From: "Peter P" <no1@...>
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Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 8:30 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Got to thinkin' about word order
> I suppose an IE list should concern itself less with Uralic, so let me try to tie Uralic to PIE and ask about Sanskrit 'ajati' he drives, Latin 'ago/agere' to urge, drive, plead. FU *aj to drive, lead, chase, Finn. 'ajaa' he drives. It looks as if the FU and PIE roots are cognates. Are there any opinions whether this word goes further back than PIE or was it borrowed into FU?
PFU *aja- is regarded as a loan from Proto-Indo-Iranian or Proto-Iranian. If it were older than that, we would expect the initial *h2 of PIE *h2ag^- to show a non-zero reflex in FU. PFU *j for PIIr. *[dz'] < *g^ represents the regular pattern of substitution between those languages.
Piotr