Re: Res: [tied] hawk

On 2006-10-14 15:18, tgpedersen wrote:

> That doesn't look very Germanic either. Maybe we should stop
> referring to strange glosses common to Baltic Finnic, Baltic and
> Germanic as 'loans from Germanic'.

*k- (as in the Slavic word) > PGmc. *x- > h- --> Finn. h- betrays the
direction of borrowing and the source of the loan in Finnish. I'm not
saying the word can't be substratal, but Anthony asked if it could be
FU. Given the above, it can't.

Piotr