From: alex
Message: 25643
Date: 2003-09-08
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From: "aquila_grande" <aquila_grande@...>
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Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 6:23 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Indo-European for Uralic speakers
The word "poika" is a very old word dating back at least to common
FU time.
The finnish word for girl is tyttö. Also this have something simular
in Scandinavian - tutte. I do not know anything about the origin of
this word.
It is culturally interesting that the word poika has not been
replaced, when the IU words for boy seens to have been replaced in
all modern IU languages many times as far as I know.
Does Glen or some other know of this word might have an origin from
the Steppe or Nostratic level?
since Rom. "pui" with feminine "puicã" appears to be considerated as a
derivative of Latin "pulleus", I doubt there can be made a connetion
here:-)
pui= baby of every animals with exceptios of these of horses, cows ,
sheeps, goats, goose and ducks. For these 6 species are special words to
denominate their babies. I mean here, one can use the word "pui" for the
babies of thes animals too, but it sounds very strange to do it. BTW,
are in other languages more/less species wherefor the people developed
special words for denominating the babies of them?
Alex