From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 57456
Date: 2008-04-16
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From: "jouppe" <jouppe@...>
> NB. Pre-Finnic seems to have borrowed *c'unti > susi 'wolf' from a
> pregermanic dialect older than the centumisation of *k'. The dental
>on the other hand rules out other IE dialects. Tricky. Pre- or Para-
> Germanic?
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Why should it not be Baltic ?
*kuH1nto > *s^unto => pre-Finnish *sunti
Arnaud
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By the way *hepo- (or *hevo-) 'horse' has so far defied all
explanations. The last attempt with lots of ad hoc assumptions is by
Liukkonen (1999) from presumed Baltic *es^vina-. More scope for
assumed para-languages?
Jouppe
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I suppose the /e/ is hevonen is short !?
This makes the derivation from H1es^w- very difficult.
A Celtic word looks better.
Do you have the words in other Fennic languages ?
Arnaud
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