From: Rick McCallister
Message: 49835
Date: 2007-09-05
> The wal- (of walrus) may be loan from Uralic.____________________________________________________________________________________
>
> Finn. kala - fish
> Mord. kal - fish
> Hung. hal - fish
> Saami guolle - fish
> Vogul hu:l - fish
>
> Peter P
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> >
> > That's a far reach. As you know some have linked
> > Uralic with Eskimo-Aleut
> > BUT supposedly, morsha is pre-Uralic
> > BTW: English walrus is supposed from Old Norwegian
> > hval-hros "whale horse" (vel sim), do you put a
> > bridle on the tusks?
> > Other Scandinavian substrates words?
> > I've seen that eider and rein(deer) are --although
> > reindeer would have to be a folk etymology in
> English,
> > it spawned Spanish reno "reindeer" but "wapiti" or
> > "pronghorn antilope" (gama in Mexican Spanish) in
> SW
> > US Spanish
> >
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