Res: Res: [tied] Re: Veps "hebon" (horse) - PIE connection?

From: Peter P
Message: 46399
Date: 2006-10-17

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "C. Darwin Goranson"
<cdog_squirrel@...> wrote:
>
> And remember, there's the issue of the "-on" ending. How can that be
> explained?

Mushtan hebon, (Muistan hevon, - in standard (poetic) Finnish).

I remember the horse. 'Horse' is in the accusative case with the case
ending of -n. In older Finnish the word was heponen > hevonen, horse
- hepo plus diminutive -nen ending.

Peter P