From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 62046
Date: 2008-12-14
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
>
> The existence of a truly PGmc. word for 'reindeer' (*xrainaz) is not
> impossible. The reindeer disappeared from the North European Plain,
> Southern Scandinavia and Scotland ca. 7000 BC, but the PGmc.-speakers
> must have lived within trading range of the reindeer hunters or herders
> of northern Scandinavia. Whether *xrainaz was made up of inherited
> elements or borrowed is anybody's guess at present.
>
> Piotr
>
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The Uralic word that best matches *xrain- is Samoyed Enets ke:re? / he:re?
northern Scandinavia !?
Better look somewhere else.
A.