Re: Uralic Loanwords in Germanic

--- 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.

I was joking myself, actually, with the recent sitar thread in
mind, though I find now in the archives that Piotr did indeed
once suggest such an etymology. Those messages can't be found
searching for 'kantele', however, as 'kant&le' was used.

See http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/48755
and http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/48756 .

David