words specific to Saamic / Finnish and Germanic

[Hans-Werner Hatting]

On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 08:20:10 +0100 Kastytis Beitas wrote:

>>However, there are lexical correspondences between western Uralic and
>>Germanic which have no further etymologies in either language family, e.g.
>>Germ. *saiwa- ~ Samic *saajvj 'fresh water', Finnic *kauka- 'long' ~ Germ.
>>*hauha- 'high',

>And Lithuanian aukshtas "high", augti "to grow"...

The Lithuanian forms are most probably not related to Gmc. *hauha-, as they
belong to the PIE root *H2eug-, like Latin _auge:re_, Vedic _ojas-_, and the
Gmc. group around _auk-_.

Gmc. *hauha- would require a PIE form *k(4)auko-/k(4)ouko-, which would give
*kauka- or *s^aus^a- (/s^/ indicating /sh/) in Lithuanian.

Best regards,
H. W. Hatting