Re: Finnish KASKA

Very clever but you reveal your ignorance again:

Look for ex. at appi 'father-in-law'. jousi 'bow', kalki 'hair, down
straw', koski 'rapids' and kusi 'urine' and their reconstruction in
the table: http://koti.welho.com/jschalin/prefinnic.htm
Ponder and learn.

And 'kaski' was of course not PU, it was borrowed in the west later.

Jouppe

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
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> 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.
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> Jouppe
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> Assuming this is a PU word
> which is unproven
> The -i- cannot be old
> otherwise Finnish should be käski.
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> kaski is *impossible*.
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> Arnaud
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