Re: Indo-Uralic?

Arnaud,

You disregard the fundamental that Proto-Uralic stems could not end
in *-u in the first place.

Only *-i/-ï or *-a/-ä

But you will of course challenge that as well, because you have burnt
every book that has been written on this so far.

Jouppe

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

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> Why is it by the way that you reconstruct PU **nohu 'woman'?
>
> Mainstream reconstruction is PU *näXi- > Pre-Finnic *naXi-
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> Jouppe
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> h regularly become yod
>
> Hungarian is nö
> *nohu > *noju > *nöjü > *nö
>
> Finnish *naj
> *nohu > *naju > *naj-
>
> PU ä is a fiction.
> PU is not proto-Finnish improved.
> Just try to get nö out of this **näXi thing.
>
> Arnaud
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