Re: IE & Uralic

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

> > > Also, Estonian (and the rest of Fennic?) has
> > > a special verb sajama for precipitation, Russian (and Slavic?)
> > > uses the standard IE movement verb *i- "go" for precipitation,
> > > where the rest of IE has kept separate verbs for rain, snow etc.
> >
> > Other Slavic languages use also verbs derived from the nouns
> > (*snì¾iti < *snìgU "snow", *dUzdjiti < *dUzdjI "rain") or the verb
> > "fall".
>
> How are the two cases distributed?
>
>
> Torsten
>

Interesting that Koivulehto claims that Finnish 'sataa, Est. 'sadada'
- to precipitate/fall < PIE *kad- 'fall' (1991).

Peter P