Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Sami/Finnic correspondences (2)

Proto-Samic is absolutely full of Proto-Finnic (and later) loanwords. It is a good idea to not assert two similar words as cognates unless you know the further etymology, or exact references.

You can mostly check this thru the Álgu database… but you'll have to know the notation. So for example on the entry for *ājkē, you will note the type of arrow to Finnish is "!<". This does not mean "not loaned from", it means "possibly loaned from, yet in contradiction to another source".

In this particular case, given that loaning seems to be the better explanation.
 * 1) in inherited Uralic vocabulary *a is reflected as Samic *uo
 * 2) the Finnic word has been explained as a Germanic or Indo-Iranian loan