"Wife"

John Cowan wrote:

>Speaking of Gothic, what's up with "aithei" [eTi] for "mother"?  It got into
>Finnish as "äiti", but I can't find anything on its etymology.
>Or did it (bizarrely) actually *come from* some kind of proto-Finnic?
>The Uralic root is something totally different, which now survives in
>Finnish in the sense "animal mother, dam".
>
>
As in a body of water? That's an interesting divergence.

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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