From: tgpedersen
Message: 44623
Date: 2006-05-18
> >If it's so recent, how come it's common to Finnish and Estonian?
> Häkkinen in her etymological dictionary suggests that a possible
> reconstructed Uralic *kojra - male animal, was an extention of *koj-
> man, male.
>
> *Kojra at this stage did not mean dog specifically. Hungarian ended
> up with modern day 'here' - testicle from this suggested root. In
> Finnic the word for dog was 'peni'. It is thought that koira meaning
> dog is possibly fairly late.
>
> Sorry I don't know the specific function of the -r.
>