Re: Uralic Loanwords in Germanic

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 65846
Date: 2010-02-12

W dniu 2010-02-11 19:05, johnvertical@... pisze:
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>
> > > 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-).
>
> > Piotr
>
> That's Finnic *ikes, not *ees - cf. Estonian _ike_.
>
> John Vertical

I see, and stand corrected. Cheers,

Piotr