From: tgpedersen
Message: 63812
Date: 2009-04-15
>I have no doubt that is the case in today's Finnish, but the question was whether they were historically related, so I stand by what I said.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Why do we end up in the water all the time?
> > Within this, IE, context, the UEW's lumping "inside" and
> > "snowstorm" into one root makes sense
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/63789
> > otherwise it doesn't.
> >
> >
> > Torsten
> >
>
> I don't think snow has a direct connection here. Tie ummessa, just
> means road in closure/enclosedness. It could just as well be
> because of a mud slide, but obviously snow is way more common.
> From the same stem, ummetus - constipation, no snow involved.
>
> Umpilumi - snow so thick you can hardly see in front of you, or
> enclosing snow.
>
> umpihanki - pristine (complete) snow bank.
>
> The snow idea comes not from umpi, but the second part of the
> compound.
>
> Peter P