Re: Finnish KASKI

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

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jouppe
>
> *mün,ä- `with (after, behind)' (Mk me-l'ä 'later, after that, then')
> (Mk me-ki 'back, again, backwards')
> ============
> I looked for "with" as meaning
> I don't think a real word can be "with, after and behind"
> at the same time.
>
> I disagree with -n- becoming -k-.....
>
> Arnaud
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Linguistics is not about "I don't think". Its about science.
Parallells and analogies:
In Finnish the stem has some of the following meanings: myö-tä
is 'with'. myö-tä-tuuli is 'wind from behind' and myö-hemmin
is 'later'.

The /n,/ (velar nasal) would not have become k but disappeared as in
Finnish. This is regular. It is retained in Saami though. In
science "I disagree" is simply not enough, you have to run through
all the data.

I thought you would recognize Moksha suffixes, especially since I
used the hyphen.

Jouppe

>
> *üli `over, above' (Mk vel'f 'beyond; through, by, over above'
> Mk vel'd'ä 'through, by')
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> This is a good joke.
> ü becoming ve !!

This particular word is well researched and has a complete
distribution with regular vowel correspondance From Finnish to Vogul.
+ v- before rounded vowel is not that strange. Finnic knows the
phenomenon.

Do your homework.

Jouppe