2,650+ SIMILAR IRISH & FINNISH WORDS on Web Page

Anthony Appleyard Anthony.Appleyard at umist.ac.uk
Mon Apr 26 07:09:29 UTC 1999


DFOKeefe at aol.com wrote:-

> Hello I-E Listmembers, We have placed a paper we have written entitled
> 2,650+ SIMILAR IRISH AND FINNISH WORDS WITH AN IRISH TIE-IN TO URALIC in
> section 1. (A.) of our Web page,
> http://members.aol.com/IrishWord/page/index.htm....

  (1) Finnish has picked a lot of loanwords from IE languages down the
ages.
  (2) What work has been done on the statistics of the likely proportion
of accidental resemblances between words in any two completely unrelated
languages?



More information about the Indo-european mailing list