Re: PIE suffix =t in food?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@...> wrote:

>
> At 9:17:25 PM on Monday, October 29, 2012, dgkilday57 wrote:
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> > Finnish/Estonian <olut> suggests that Germanic was not the
> > immediate source, but another IE language provided the
> > word to both Finnic and Germanic.
>
> Why?

Finnish <rengas>, <kuningas>, and the like do not change Gmc. */a/ to /o/.

DGK