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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> 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.

The Balto-Finnic form would have been *warkas.

- Rob