Re: R: Re: R: Re: Uusisuom's influences
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 2, 2001, 21:14 |
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> John Cowan wrote
>
> > Mangiat scripsit:
> >
> > > It's intriguing enough, anyway, that the Finnish word for 'father' comes
> from
> > > Gothic.
> >
> > Really? I know this is true for "mother": Gothic aithei > Finnish a"iti.
> > (In Gothic spelling as in Greek, "ei" means /i:/.)
>
Actually, Fi. isa" 'father' is Uralic, cognate with Hungarian atya. The
word for mother is from Gothic; one will note that in Estonian and the
other Balto-finnic languages the word is ema/ema"
-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy
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