From: stlatos
Message: 70480
Date: 2012-11-23
>I wrote more about this before:
> Not so, since the existence of Khowar òhts 'bear' (which never had a- and didn't get ts < Cy) makes it likely that Finnish otso \ ohto (etc.) was borrowed from an Indo-Iranian l. like Kh, possibly even proto-Kh. Finnish borrowings from Indo-Iranian are known, and the existence (even in ancient sources) of many odd (in comp. to most modern) Indo-Iranian l. in NE Europe increases this likelihood.
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