Re: Indo-Uralic?

*gw- is one phoneme (no superscript on my machine, we are talking
about the labiovelar stop here, this internet limitation is the
reason i use q' on my homepage) and the next is a nasal. Where does
the -u- appear from? It is certainly not part of the root!

Jouppe

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

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> I have to correct myself. It should be *gwneh2- of course.
> And it has no bearing on the etymology for 'nai-nen' itself since
> Finnic simplifies the word-initial cluster.
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> Jouppe
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> There is no initial cluster
> the word has two syllables : gu -- neH2
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> Impossible etymology.
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> Arnaud
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