Re: [tied] Re: morsha

Uralic *ku-l "fish" is most probably related to the loanword T-ghu "fish"

into Central PIE.

Squalus versus *kul shines like gold but it 's Pyrite.

----- Original Message -----

From: Rick McCallister

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 10:07 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Re: morsha

No, more like it's likely related to Latin squalus,
maybe somehow related to balaena

--- Peter P <roskis@... ca> wrote:

> 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@... s.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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