Re: Similarities in Caucasian languages to Indo-European

> > 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".
>
> What does "discourage" mean ?
>
> I suppose Uralic "had the right" to have vocalic apophony
> in a given consonantal skeleton.
>

If the two words can't be related using the rules of FU linguistics,
which it seems Häkkinen is saying, they might be related in some other
language (family), ie. be loans.


Torsten