Re: Indo-European for Uralic speakers

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

> 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?

Tyttö is from Finnish tytär meaning daughter. A fairly obvious loan
from Baltic and earlier.

Peter P