Re: [tied] Re: IE thematic presents and the origin of their themati

tgpedersen wrote:

> And why does Russian have the very similar 'vor' "thief" (BTW
> in the comment to this, please leave out the sentence "the two are
> completely unrelated"; I have a copy of Pokorny too)?

I haven't got a reliable Russian etymological dictionary to hand, but I
vaguely remember that the word is an early Finnic loan in Russian, cf.
Finnish varas. It's one of those nouns that get a /k/ in their
declension (varkaiden, etc.), but I leave its ultimate etymology to
those who know more about Finno-Ugric than I do.

Piotr