From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 52738
Date: 2008-02-12
> I ran into this on line. Any validity to what he says?I've converted it to something readable, using SAMPA [X] and
> 1) PIE laryngeals correspond to PU fricative *X
> in cases like:
> -Finnish nai-/naa- 'woman' < PU *näXi-/*naXï- <= PIE
> *c'næX\-/ > Greek gune: 'woman', Sanskrit gná: 'Godess'
> 2) PIE laryngeals correspond to Pre-Finnic fricative
> *s^ in cases like:
> -Old Finnish inhi-(m-inen) 'human being' < PreFi *ins^i-
> (<**jins^i-) 'descendant' <= PIE *c'nh-(i)e/o- > Sanskrit
> já:- 'born, offspring, descendant', Gmc. *kunja-
> 'generation, lineage, kin'
> 3) PIE laryngeals correspond to Pre-Finnic *k in
> wordstems like:
> -Finnish kesä- 'summer' < PFU *kesä- <= PIE *hes-en-
> (*hos-en-/-er-) > Balto-Slavic *eseni- 'autumn', Gothic asans 'summer'
> -Finnish kulke- 'to go, walk, wander' ~ Hungarian halad-
> 'to go, walk, proceed' < PFU *kulki- <= PIE *qelH-e/o- >
> Greek pelomai '(originally) to be moving', Sanskrit cárati
> 'goes, walks, wanders (about)?, cognate Lat. colere 'to
> till, cultivate, inhabit'
> -Finnish teke- 'do, make' ~ Hungarian tëv-, të-, tesz- 'to
> do, make, put, place' < PFU *teki- <= PIE *t,eh- > Greek
> títhe:mi, Sanskrit dádha:ti 'put, place', but 'do, make'
> in the western IE languages, e.g. the Germanic forms do,
> German tun, etc., and Latin facio:.
> http://koti.welho.com/jschalin/substitutions.htm