From: Rick McCallister
Message: 50255
Date: 2007-10-10
> --- In 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
>
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>