From: johnvertical@...
Message: 65361
Date: 2009-11-03
> > What exactly is the "water transport theory" anyway? Torsten'sI'd rather not call something of that sort a theory
> > latest renames it "amber trail theory", but I thought this was
> > supposed to cover all IE-Uralic interactions, not just those near
> > the Baltic Sea.
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> Well, it shifts with my mood.
> BTW is Estonian 'rong' "train" an invented word or bona fide U or FU?It's not an old Uralic root at least. And while I don't have an Estonian etymological dictionary to confirm, its absence in Finnish points to being a neologism (ie. not even common Finnic).
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> Torsten