Re: Uralic Loanwords in Germanic

From: bmscotttg
Message: 62497
Date: 2009-01-14

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

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet"
> <fournet.arnaud@> wrote:

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

>>> The latter from P.I.E. *kan-tlom, no doubt.

>> How do you explain -tele out of -tlom- ?
>> Why should it not be kantolo or kantala !?
>> => very strange vocalic scheme.

>> 8 messages. None of them explains how kan-tlom could be
>> become kantele.

And here, ladies and gentleman, we have a fine specimen of
homo inattentus.

> Have you applied the Sean Whalen etymological method
> to it?

For some reason I keep wanting to read that as 'cryptological
method'.

Brian