Re: Uralic Loanwords in Germanic

W dniu 2010-02-07 21:27, johnvertical@... pisze:

> (Which is not to say that *ks.o:m sounds any better - but not really
> much worse either. This should yield **ho:mi. A relationship to IE
> *gh´mo: "man" is also a proposed possibility, but with even more
> assumptions required. I consider most likely the possibility of the word
> being cognate to the self-appellations "Sami", "Häme" (both < *Sämä <
> Baltic *Zeme: "land"), probably as an erly loan from Samic.)

Just for the record, I did NOT suggest a borrowing specifically from
Indic or a porototype initial /ks./. Here is my original posting to
which, I suppose, Sean refers. Gosh, it was more than ten years ago!

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/86

Piotr