Re: Finnish KASKA

So, if Finnish is not Uralic, what is it? On the
Wikipedia site they give a pretty convincing argument
that it's related to Saami, Estonian, Hungarian et al.
Is that a conspiracy?


--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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
>
> ===================
> I'm afraid you are unaware
> that Finnish is *not* Uralic
> and that Finnish has added a lot of -i-
> to words that never had -i-
> in Proto-Western-Uralic.
> If you had cared to read my previous mails,
> I stated the structure CvC
> simplifies as Cv in Permic
> Compare *ni with Finnish nuoli.
>
> Word skin :
> Reference word : PIE kuHti
> kuHt-i > Moksha ked'
> kuHt > kuor > Finnish kuori.
> The -i- is a late addition in Finnish
> and in Mordvin it must be early.
>
> It's not fallen from the sky.
> Look at the Uralic data.
>
> Arnaud
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>
>
>
>

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