Re: [tied] Nominative: A hybrid view

From: Peter P
Message: 22432
Date: 2003-05-31

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:
>
>
> >I take the traditional Uralic reconstruction *luke-k-me-k or *luke-
t-me-k
> >'we read' (Finn. luemme) to represent a stem
> >put in the plural [...]
>
> Apparently, Jens thinks that Uralic speakers could read in the
> 5th millenium BCE.
>
It certainly looks a little early for the "Book of the Month Club".
I guess those early Finns would have a problem in seLECTing,
counting, picking, or even reading the signs for future offerings.

Peter P