LL-L "Language contacts" 2002.08.01 (01) [E]

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From: "botas(club)" <botas at club-internet.fr>
Subject: LL-L "Language contacts" 2002.07.31 (02) [E]

Sami, Suomi (Finnish for "Finnish") may have the same root.
An example which fascinated me when I first became aware of it:
Broad-leaf, deciduous trees only grow in the South of Finland
and only a few species and with difficulties for climatic reasons.
The Hanse merchants introduced the beech tree to the Fins.
Saxon boik, böök, Finnish pyökki.
Mike Wintzer

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Language contacts

I wrote about old Germanic loans in Balto-Finnic:

> 'bread':
> Finnish: leipä
> Karelian: leipä
> Votian: leipä
> Estonian: leib
> Veps: leib, liib
>    cf.: Saami: láibe*
>    cf.: Germanic:
>           Gothic: hlaif
>           Old English: hlaf
>           English: loaf
>           German: Laib
>           Yiddish: lebn

And then, of course, compare Slavic for 'bread', e.g., ...

Belarusan: xleb
Russian: xleb
Ukrainian: xlib
Czech: chléb
Polish: chleb
Bulgarian: xljab
Serbo-Croatian: hleb, hljeb
Slovak: chlieb
Sorbian (Lusatian): chle^bk

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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