IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

JoatSimeon at aol.com JoatSimeon at aol.com
Tue Feb 1 18:17:45 UTC 2000


>Georg at home.ivm.de writes:

<< Everything can be borrowed, and there are examples for everything actually
>having been borrowed at some point in space and time. >>

-- true, although of course some things are more _likely_ to be borrowed than
others. Numerals, body parts, family relationships, and so forth, are less
likely to be loan-words.



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