From: Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
Message: 70942
Date: 2013-02-14
> 2013/2/13, johnvertical@... <johnvertical@...>:Sorry, I meant *grb
>> Background: I've been exploring some evidence for a possible unknown
>> Uralic
>> substrate in Finnic. One feature of this hypothetical substrate would be
>> *w
>>> pp after a liquid, e.g. _kärppä_ "stoat" vs. PU *käDwä "weasel".
>>
>> One of the words of this shape in Finnish is _korppi_ "raven". This is
>> normally analyzed as a loan from Scandinavian _korp_, and I see no
>> obsctacle
>> to this - this replaced the common Finnic word for the bird, *karnV,
>> which
>> is probably inherited Uralic. I however believe the Sc. word does not have
>> a
>> credible IE etymology (after all, k-p makes the very premise suspicious).
>>
> (...)
>
> Bhr.: there's no restriction to *DeRD-roots; even *DED is attested,
> but in any case an intervening */R/ removes the 'suspicious'
> phonotactic environment; so, *glb- is a welcome reconstruction
>