Re: [tied] Re: Indo-European for Uralic speakers

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 25566
Date: 2003-09-06

At 12:09:23 PM on Saturday, September 6, 2003, aquila_grande
wrote:

> By the way, is not the finnish word "sisu" (guts, courage)
> also used in english?

Not to my knowledge. It does appear (and is defined) in
Heinlein's juvenile _Citizen of the Galaxy_, in which
Finnish is the language of a nomadic culture of galactic
free traders, but that's the only instance that comes to
mind, and even there it's treated as a foreign word.

Brian