Re: Uralic Loanwords in Germanic

> > The suffix -as develop'd to a sort of "loanword suffix" in Finnic,
> > and later to a general diminutiv; Livonian is particularly fond of
> > it.

and

> > A large number of the Germanic ones have limited distribution
> > (generally only North Finnic, or Finnish proper), so even if they
> > have a non-IE origin in Gmc, I'd bet Finnish got them from Gmc
> > anyway.

How do these two statements match?


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