IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

Miguel Carrasquer Vidal mcv at wxs.nl
Wed Feb 2 23:14:07 UTC 2000


JoatSimeon at aol.com wrote:

>>Georg at home.ivm.de writes:

><< Everything can be borrowed, and there are examples for everything actually
>>having been borrowed at some point in space and time. >>

>-- true, although of course some things are more _likely_ to be borrowed than
>others. Numerals, body parts, family relationships, and so forth, are less
>likely to be loan-words.

Numerals are relatively likely, though.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl



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