Re: Musical instruments and music in Proto-Indo-European

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "C. Darwin Goranson"
<cdog_squirrel@...> wrote:

>
> It may be a wild goose chase, but if the Finnish form is close to an
> original *kan-tlo- (<PreFinnish kant&le ?), then perhaps there was an
> assimilation process in the Baltic words where *kantlos < *kanklos,
> the word would be at least Indo-European in formation: kan- (to sing)
> + -tlo(m) (thing which does VERB), i.e. kan-tlo- (thing that sings)

In Baltic, all *-tlos > -klas; I have no doubt it is an IE word.