Re: Early Indo-European loanwords preserved in Finnish

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

>

[Quoting Koivulehto:]

The "omission" (Helimski: "abscence") of a

> suffix in the source word, as far as I know, very rare in my material
> and easily be accounted for. In no. 10 (*vete) the Indo-European
> counterpart is a heteroclitic –er/-en-stem, but it is obvious that
> this stem has been derived from a root noun *wed- (cf. also Armenian
> get `river').

Is the above Armenian word typically traced to a suffix-less *wed-? (I
recall that the IEW traces it to *wedo:(r).) Is there any other
possible attestation of a root noun that the heteroclitic "water" stem
would have been derived from?