Re: Finnish KASKA

kaski 'burnt over clearing' is an so called e-stem (PU i-stem). These
words are very old, some 2000 years +/- at least. at that time proto-
germanic for 'björk-aska' would have been something rather longer.

Jouppe

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "squilluncus" <grvs@...> wrote:
>
> Finnish kaska may simply be a mis-ananlysis of Sw. björk-aska, birch-
> ashes, an important product for making detergents and for the
lutfisk,
> the most chemically-basic food on the planet which is specially
popular
> in Sweden Finland Norway on the Christmas table as a counterpoise to
> all the fat in other plates.
>
> Lars
>