Re: Uralic Continuity Theory ; Paleo-Germanic lexical borrowings in

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

>
> If 'hartia-' is from Germ. *hart-, what made the Finns
> suddenly change their mind about their supposedly ancient Germ. *x- ->
> Finn. *k- ? It doesn't make a lot of sense.
> Torsten
>
> ===========
>
> Finnish hartia "shoulder"
> is really strange.
>
> It looks like an odd deformation
> of the root of *s-kul-t-er
> with *kul-t > *hart-
>
> I don't know if there are
> other cases when Finnish has
> -r- when -l- is expected.
>
> Arnaud
>

According to DEO *harþi-, pl. *harþiðz has plenty of family within
NWGermanic, but is otherwise 'of disputed origin'. Why it's classified
as a loan from Germanic to Finn. is a mystery to me; the two other
logical options seem equally viable.


Torsten