Re: Similarities in Caucasian languages to Indo-European

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "afyangh" <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

>
> > > 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

Also? I don't.

> From *ghabh : to seize :
> *ghabh-m-t > Western Uralic kunt > Borrowed + Verner : *hunt

You mean Grimm? Or rather half-Grimm, since it only affects the anlaut.

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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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"protected, defensible place" > "cover" > "protection, might,
possession" > "hand"


Torsten