Re: R: Re: R: Re: Uusisuom's influences
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 3, 2001, 2:43 |
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Frank George Valoczy scripsit:
> 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"
Which in Finnish, I am told, means "dam" (the mother of an animal).
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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