help with Finnish, please?

[Alan R. King]

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This may or may not be deemed a suitable question for HISTLING, but I'm
going to try anyway.  I am translating/editing an article on Basque
language standardization, and would like to double-check on the accuracy of
a few statements by the original author concerning Finnish words and their
etymologies.  Anyone want to (and able to) help?  I will acknowledge help
(if ultimately used) in a footnote to the translated version.
 
The author says that:
 
Finnish PEILI "mirror" is the assimilated form of a loanword SPEKLI;
Finnish ROUVA "lady" similarly < FROUWA;
Finnish ROPAKANTA "propaganda" < PROPAGANDA;
Finnish RANTA "?" < STRAND;
Finnish STRUKTUURI < STRUKTURA.
 
The author does not state what language(s) the second forms given came
from, but I would like to know (I'm thinking here of SPEKLI and FROUWA in
particular; is this some sort of proto-Germanic, or what? should they be
starred? and of course, are they accurate?).
 
Kiitos!
 
 
 
Alan R. King, Ph.D.
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