Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

> Aikio's 2004 paper "An essay on substrate studies and the origin of
> the Saami" took a lot of searching for, but is available at
> http://www.geocities.com/tjaaehkere/Aikio2004.pdf
> (if someone has already posted the link on Cybalist, I missed it
> somehow)
> He doesn't say 25%, but he does give an impressively long list of
> probable substrate words.

One is uffir "heap of rocks or rocky slope near the seashore" which I
like since it's one of my favorite Wanderwörter, if related to Germ.
Ufer, Du. oever "river bank", cf
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Op.html
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Opr.html
This is borrowed later than Proto-Saami, which means the Saami met it
in their expansion into their present homes, ie. into Scandinavia. So
this wanderword had arrived there already then.


Torsten