IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

[Eduard Selleslagh]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miguel Carrasquer Vidal" <mcv at wxs.nl>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 4:50 PM

> Stefan Georg <Georg at home.ivm.de> wrote:

>>> to the south (with s-mobile)
>>> - bask    izen

>> So Basque is Indoeuropean, I see (try to inflect it, maybe it shows -r/-n
>> heteroclisis as well).

> Careful now, Basque *does* have -n/-r- "heteroclisis" of sorts
> (e.g. <egun> "day", <egur-aldi> "weather"[*]) and even one case
> of true -r/-n- heteroclisis (erg. <haur> oblique <hon-> "this").

> [*] Despite PII *ag^her, ag^hnas "day", I do *not* think that the
> Basque phenomenon can be equated with the PIE one.

[Ed]

Maybe this is not the right place, but I have this question that has been
nagging me for years: would Turkish 'gün' for 'day' fit in here?

Ed.