LL-L "Slavonic connections" 2004.10.02 (09) [E]

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From: Heinrich Becker <heinrich.becker at gmx.net>
Subject: LL-L "Slavonic connections" 2004.10.02 (05) [E]

>John Feather wrote:
>
    My little Polish dictionary only has "deska" (= "board") (and I've only
    found "daisko" on the internet in Finnish and Latvian) which looks
    very like
    a cognate of Russian "doska" (both feminine) and others in Serbo-Croat,
    Slovak, Czech and Bulgarian.

The word "daisko" or desk has never been used in Finnish language.
You must have mixed up this with somewhat else. Finns avoid to use
the letter "D",for it doesn't belong to Finnish alphabet. Instead of
a "D" they sometimes replace it with a "T" in loans.
F.i. in "tiski", which means "dishwashing".

The finnish word for table is "pöytä".

Terveisiä
Heinrich Becker

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