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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> 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?
Hm. Is this a trick question?
Straight out of Aikio's article:
"
The following list contains North Saami words which have no known
etymology and no acceptable cognates in the other Uralic branches
...
Animals and animal body parts, including:
...
hávda 'eider' (? << *ávda, cf SaaSk [Skolt Saami] audd; note also Old
Norse æðr 'eider' - due to the sound correspondence between Saami and
Norse the word cannot be a direct loan in either direction)
"
Torsten