Re: IE & Uralic

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 51209
Date: 2008-01-12

 
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From: fournet.arnaud
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: IE & Uralic

 
----- Original Message -----
As regards Moksha Mordvin,
Loanwords are supposed to be Iranian and Balto-slavic.
But some words look Germanic
such as kardaz "cattle-shed" < *gard-az (such nominative ending kept)
Arnaud
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Another obvious germanic loanword is
Erzia tejter "daughter" < *dux-ter
It seems people in Russia have never studied that kind of things.
 

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