Re: S mobile (Was : PS Emphatics)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>

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> Not so sure.
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> What about Mordvin low "snow" < *n_(gh)w ? (vowel unclear)
> No s- because it is Uralic..
> And connection with Chinese *ning "to freeze, to congeal" ?
> These words have no #s-.
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> Arnaud
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Mordvin low < FU *lume - snow

Finnish / Estonian lumi
Mari lum
Komi lym
Hung. lom - frost (on branches)
Nenets jomzes' - snow (verb)