Re: Indo Aryan and Finno-Ugric, was Re: [tied] *kW- "?"

Hi Glen,

The most important scholar in this context is undoubtedly Jorma Koivulehto. Among his many contributions on the topic of contacts of Uralic and Indo-European speakers one relatively easily (?) accessible article in English is  “The Earliest Contacts between IE and Uralic Speakers in the Light of Lexical Loans” in Christian Carpelan, Asko Parpola and Petteri Koskikallio (eds.):  “Early contacts between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and archaeological considerations”. (Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, 242.) Helsinki: Finno-Ugrian Society, 2001.

Best regards, Juha

Gendler concerning the origin of the IndoIranian lgs:
> I find this quite interesting. Can you recommend
> some sources where I might look into this further ?

As I've said before, basic information like this
can be glimpsed from the Encyclopaedia Britannica at
a regular public library, if not there, at a local
university library, because it is an unusually
detailed encyclopaedia. That's the perfect start to
getting leads on even more information elsewhere.

The early exchange between Indo-Iranian and Finno-
Ugric is one of many really cool factoids in
linguistics and is the only thing to help explain
things like Finnish /porsas/, ultimately from
IndoIranian *párc^as "pig" (<= I _think_ that's
the form but don't quote me), which is from IE
*pórkos "pig", hence Latin /porcus/. Another
undeniable one is the word for "100": Finnish /sata/.
The IE word is *kmtóm so I'm guessing it was probably
something like *c^atá at that time.

This link has some of these reconstructed Indo-
Iranian roots in its "Indo-Aryan" database:
              http://www.ieed.nl/


= gLeN



           
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