Re: Finnish KASKI

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:51:01 -0000, "jouppe"
<jouppe@...> wrote:

>I can also give you a good regular one:
>
>Finno-Ugric /s/ Samoyed /t/
>
>Material:
>*sålå (UEW sala) 'to steal; (fi.) stealth hidden, secret' || Samoj t-
>*sårkå (UEW sarka) 'crotch, branch (fi. > gusset > strip)' || Samoj t-
>*suksï (UEW sukse) 'ski' || Samoj- t-
>*kåxsï (UEW kuse/kose) 'spruce, fir' || Samoj Selkup qu:t Taigi kat
>etc.
>
>Diachroically */s/ is reconstructed for Proto-Uralic.

Yes, but I wonder whether that can be correct, given that
the Ugric reflex of PU */s/ is PUgr */þ/. I can buy one
unusual development (s > t in Samoyed), but two (s > þ in
Ugric) seems a bit too much.

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