From: caotope
Message: 64973
Date: 2009-09-03
>Hm, but if the word is a substrate loan into PIE and PU both, how do you rule out the possibility of this being of common inheritance after all? Etherman brought up other examples of a correspondence of PU *ä to IE *ei not long ago on the Nostratica list.
> > > ***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?
>
> 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.
> Torsten