Re: Finnish KASKA

At 3:08:50 PM on Monday, February 18, 2008, jouppe wrote:

> --- 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.

> 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.

It would have had to be something like PGmc. *berko:-asko:n
or at the latest PScand. *berku-askõ:.

Brian