Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: root *pVs- for cat

No, just that there was a Finnish Saami linguist on
the list who mentioned that. Maybe Jens, Piotr or
Torsten remember his name --something like Aalto but
I'm not sure


--- Max Dashu <maxdashu@...> wrote:

> Thanks for this very interesting info, Rick.
>
> Can you say more about what is known about the
> non-Uralic substrate of Saami?
>
> Max
>
> >From what you say, unless this is a Uralic trait, I
> >guess the source was Saami --given that it
> supposedly
> >has a strong non Uralic substrate that is said to
> >account for a fourth of its vocabulary. I've
> wondered
> >if there is any substrate lexicon common to both
> Saami
> >and Germanic.
>
>

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