IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

Ante Aikio <anaikio at mail.student.oulu.fi> wrote:

>On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

>> This word is sometimes seen as supportive of a PIE ~ Uralic
>> genetic link, but it rather looks like a borrowing from IE into
>> Uralic.  The IE prototype contains two laryngeals (*h1neh3- or
>> *h3neh3-) and the abstract suffix *-men [*], none of which finds
>> expression in the Uralic word.

>Actually, the lack of reflex of medial *h3 is a bit problematic. One would
>expect borrowing from IE *Hneh3men- to give PU *nexmi / *nixmi. But I've
>seen such reconstructs as IE *nmen-, based (at least) on Slavic, as far as
>I understand. Is this reconstruct valid? It would account nicely for PU
>*nimi.

*nmen seems right for Slavic ime~ (< jIme~ < Ime~ < nmen).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl