Re: Finnish KASKI

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

> From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...>

>> I do not have the facts to hand to demonstrate that Proto-Uralic *s
>> was [s].

> That is also not what I asked.

> I asked, for the third time, if it is certain that PUr is the parent of
> Samoyed?

Tuatologically true, unles you are excluding the possibility of
intermediate nodes. I think I don't understand your question, for it
makes less sense than asking whether Gothic is a Germanic language.

> If it is not, your example loses all relevance.

It's not my example!

Richard.