Dear Miguel and Nostraticists:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miguel Carrasquer Vidal" <mcv@...>
To: <nostratic@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [nostratic] ouralique et IE


> On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 11:48:35 +0200, "Guillaume JACQUES" <xiang@...>
> wrote:
>
> >Tu sembles sous-entendre que les etymologies de Koivulehto sont dans l'ensemble peu concluantes. Pourrais tu en donner des exemples ?
>
> On the other Nostratic group [<nostratic@...>] (or was it
> <indo-european@...>?), Ante Aikio gave some examples:
>
> PU PIE
> *pel(x)i- "fear" *pelH-
> *toxi "bring, give, sell" *doH-
> *koki "see, find" *Hokw-
> *kulki "move, flow, walk" *kwelH-
> *(x)aja "drive" *Hag^-


<snip>

[PR]
Why should Uralic *koki derive from *Hokw- when we have German *gukjan? similarly, why *kulki from *kwelH- when we know it was reduplicated at a very early date: *kwel-kwel- > *kulki?

Pat

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