Re: Similarities in Caucasian languages to Indo-European

> > And as usual !!
> > Germanic loanword from an Asiatic language : komt > hand
> > And *hant-i being a "root-noun" does not protect it from being a
> > loanword.

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Torsten :

> AS hunt, huntian, Goth. fra-hinþan "hunt, catch",

Arnaud
I also consider that Germanic *hunt is an Uralic loanword
From *ghabh : to seize :
*ghabh-m-t > Western Uralic kunt > Borrowed + Verner : *hunt

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> but accepts
> NLG hude, hüde "hiding place"
> Gr. kanthós "corner of the eye", kontós "nail",
> Welsh cethr "point, nail",
> OHG hantego, handego "sharp, pointed",
> Proto-Slav. *ko,t- >
> Russ. kut "the end of a river",
> Ukr. kut "narrow, angular bay"
> Pol. ka,t "remains of old river bend"
> In the sense "house" common in Slavic, in SSlavic in the sense "house"
> cf. unshifted NHG Kante "edge, esp. of water"
> assuming a sense "hidden" also unshifted
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/46174
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/46179
> and Grimm-shifted German Hode "testicle"?
> Torsten

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Arnaud
I cannot see the semantic connection between these words.
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