From: tgpedersen
Message: 46364
Date: 2006-10-14
>Of course. :)
> 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.