Re: Northwest *kVl-

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Peter P" <roskis@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
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> > >
> > > Häkkinen contends that Finnish 'kieli' is of FU origin <*ke:le.
> > >
> > > Estonian keel
> > > Nor. Lap giella'
> > > Mordvin kel'
> > > Votyak kyl
> > > Ostyak ket
> > > Yurak-Samoyedic s'ie
> > >
> >
> > So either some Uralic language is a substrate of NWBlock or I'd have
> > to give up the claim.
> > 1) My Estonian - Danish dictionary says for keel,-e "language,

tongue;

> > string"; are both those senses included for the members of the set
> > you mention, or are there more wordsets involved?
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> They all mean tongue/language except 'ket' - word.
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> > 2) Is there a similar claim for Estonian kael,-a "neck"?
> >
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> Estonian kael, and Finnish kaula - neck, are of Baltic origin.
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> Lith. kaklas
> Latv. kalks
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> >
> > Torsten
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> Peter P
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And what about Arabic käla:m 'speech, conversation'?

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