Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

I'd definitely like to see all of you do something
with that substrate --i.e. see if it links to anything
else, find more substrate words common to Saami &
Scandinavian, or even Baltic
As I remember <eider (duck, down)> is a substrate
word. Anything like that in Saami?


--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tgpedersen
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 11:08 AM
> Subject: [Courrier indésirable] [tied] 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.
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>
> A.F
>
> Impressive, indeed.
>
> I am not sure all words have to be discarded as
> non Uralic.
>
> For example njarra "cape" related to the word
> "nose"
>
> Some words starting with sk- look PIE.
>
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>
>
> 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.
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>
> A.F
>
> What is wrong with Kluge's analysis of Ufer ?
>
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>
> Torsten
>
>
>
>

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