Re: Finnish KASKA

Obviously, if the facts of your language fly in the
face of someone's idea, your language must be wrong ;p

--- jouppe <jouppe@...> wrote:

> The list of words I presented: appi, jousi, kalki,
> koski and kusi are
> not reconstructions but real words in a real
> language. They also
> constitute solid counter evidence to your
> 'fallen-out-of-the-sky'
> umlaut hypothesis. Where did it come from?
>
> Jouppe
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
> <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> > =================
> >
> > You are blithely taking
> > standard PU reconstructions for gold.
> > Some associations of vowels are impossible :
> >
> > a > a
> > a_i > ä_i
> >
> > o > o
> > o _i > ö_i
> >
> > u > u
> > u_i > y_i
> >
> > Western PU has the same kind of umlaut
> > as German has.
> > But this does not apply to Kant / MAns
> >
> > Your reconstruction with final -i
> > and a o u
> > as main vowels are just impossible.
> >
> > Arnaud
> > ===================
> >
>
>
>

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