From: tgpedersen
Message: 64971
Date: 2009-09-02
>Actually, I don't even have a theory of how those two are related. I stick to loans. In this case from a substrate to both, presumably one that knew ice.
> > ***R Would English ice < gicel < *Hieg/k- (vel sim) and Uralic *jäNe work as examples?
> > >
> > Loans is nicer.
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/60884
> > It accounts for two traditionally unconnected IE roots.
> > Form in donor language something like *in,g-
>
> > Torsten
>
> Which would probably have to be from a sister group to both IE and
> Uralic then?
> *ä > i is too new to be from any extant Uralic group (for example,OK.
> Mari only changes this before *j)