Re: [NATLANG] Q Re: The Finno-Celtic Conspiracy

Quoting David Peterson <ThatBlueCat@...>:

> Hi all,
>
> In looking for an explanation of the names of the noun cases of Finnish (if
> the Instructive is the Instrumental, why call it the Instructive?  Is this a
> remnant of some tradition I'm unaware of?), I came across the following
> website:
>
> http://hometown.aol.com/irishWord/irish-finn3.htm
>
> The basic premise of the website is that Finnish and Irish are distantly
> related.  They have a bunch of examples (2,650, to be exact), and some of
> them seem plausible.  I was wondering if anybody had heard of this, and if
> anyone could comment on the validity (i.e., is this something where an
> argument could be made, or is it purely Greenbergian speculation).
Apart from noting that this is so obviously misguided that even I can tell it,
it's worth noting that according to the Nostratic hypothesis, Irish and
Finnish ARE related. This would be demonstrated by comparing reconstructed PIE
and Proto-Uralic, of course.

                                                              Andreas

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