As a common Uralic word is not likely to
have been borrowed from Germanic, you had better propose a more ancient source.
Reduplicated *kWekWlo- has been borrowed into Uralic languages more than once
(also as *kekrä- with a (pre-)Indo-Iranian *-r- for *-l-), but the source form
is always recognisable as the normal IE shape *kWe-kWlo- (rather than
**kWel-kW(el)- or the like).
Piotr
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Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: [nostratic] ouralique et
IE
[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?