Re: Similarities in Caucasian languages to Indo-European

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> 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".
> >
> > 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
>

That could make sense since my Finnish dictionaries do not give clear
etymologies for either word. AFAIK kymmenen only appears in Finnic
and Mordvin so probably is not FU or Uralic.

Kämmen is distributed wider including cognates in Ob-Ugric.

Peter P