--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...>
wrote:
> I would therefore prefer to reconstruct the root as
> *h1nóh3-, oblique *h1nh3-, with suffix *-men-.
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The final line of Pokorny (with my apology for font problems):
"vgl. finno-ugr. nm, nam, ne°m, namma, magyar. nv `Name'."
This has been one of the classic examples for proponents of a
relationship between I.-E, and F.-U.
With Miguel's reconstruction there seem to be four possibilities:
1) F.-U. borrowing from one of the I.-E. languages (or from P.IE
itself).
2) Attachment of the suffix to the root in a language ancestral to
both phyla.
3) Existence in both phyla of the the root and the suffix with
similar enough functions for parallel development.
4) Wild coincidence.
Is there evidence otherwise for *-men in F.-U.?
Dan