Re: Similarities in Caucasian languages to Indo-European

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From: Peter P

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Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 1:47 AM

Subject: [Courrier indésirable] [tied] Re: Similarities in Caucasian languages to Indo-European

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

5 - *viite/*vitte
10 - *luka

Häkkinen in her etymological dictionary discourages trying to equate
Finnish 'kämmen' hand and 'kymmenen' 10 "for reasons of sound change
mixture".

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Arnaud

What does "discourage" mean ?

 

I suppose Uralic "had the right" to have vocalic apophony

in a given consonantal skeleton.

 

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