Re: Limigantes

> Note that UEW is again fighting with the problem of explaing away cognates between Germanic and all of Finno-Permic; they resort to claiming that the Finnish sense of FP *lama was influenced by Swedish lam "lame" and not that of the other FP cognates, which have similar senses.

The modern stance on *lama is that it is a loan from Germanic > Finnic and that the Permic cognates are unrelated (the palatalization and the vocalism are not explainable from a common FP root). Distribution in Komi but not Udmurt, and the a~a correspondence may however suggest loaning from BF.

> Note in support of the proposed sl-/sw- alternation also the l-/v- alternation in Komi S leń, P veń 'ruhig, still (Wetter); windstill'
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> Torsten

It's not "alternation", it's a regular dialectal development l > v.

John Vertical