Re: Uralic Loanwords in Germanic

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 65840
Date: 2010-02-11

W dniu 2010-02-11 14:09, johnvertical@... pisze:

> ies < considered Slavic; clearly IE anyway ("yoke")

It isn't the 'yoke' word (Slavic *jIgo), but the Slavic word for 'wagon
shaft, tongue (of a vehicle)', an original s-stem neuter (Slavic
*oje/*ojes-). The PIE reconstruction is rather uncertain: *Hoi(H)os
(approx.), with few cognates in the family.

Piotr