From: Rick McCallister
I ran into this on line. Any validity to what he says?
1) PIE laryngeals correspond to PU fricative *χ
in cases like:
-Finnish nai-/naa- 'woman' < PU
*näχi-/*naχï- <= PIE *c'næħ-/ > Greek
gunē 'woman', Sanskrit gnā´ 'Godess'
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This root *noh "woman" is not clearly attested in PIE
Arnaud
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2) PIE laryngeals correspond to Pre-Finnic fricative
*s in cases like:
-Old Finnish inhi-(m-inen)
'human being' < PreFi *insi- (<**jinsi-) 'descendant'
<= PIE *c'nh-(i)e/o- > Sanskrit jā́- 'born,
offspring, descendant', Gmc. *kunja- 'generation,
lineage, kin'
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Absurd
Arnaud
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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'
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PU word "summer" probably means "hot"
Cf. Turkish kiz-dirmak
and a couple of Uralic words like Udmurt gitch "hot".
Arnaud
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-Finnish teke- 'do, make' ~ Hungarian tëv-, të-, tesz-
'to do, make, put, place' < PFU *teki- <= PIE *t,eh- >
Greek títhēmi, Sanskrit dádhāti 'put,
place', but 'do, make' in the western IE languages,
e.g. the Germanic forms do, German tun, etc., and
Latin faciō.
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Obviously a loanword from *dh_H1
Arnaud
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http://koti.welho.com/jschalin/substitutions.htm