IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

[Anthony Appleyard]

  Hans_Holm at h2.maus.de wrote:-

> Of cause, resemblances between two langs/Protolangs alone do not prove
> borrowing, let alone any direction of of it. Steve Long is quite right in
> asking "I MUST also find out someday why Uralic would need to borrow words
> for water, move, bring and wash from IE."

If a language has been through a period of the type of phonetic change that
causes an excessive homophone load, then its speakers will be tempted to take
just about any word with just about any meaning from neigbors' languages to
avoid ambiguity in speech. E.g. Persian took the word {wa} = and" from Arabic.