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From: dacosta@prl.philips.nl (Paulo da Costa)
Subject: Re: Gaelic eye?
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Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 11:50:28 GMT
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In <3ml7qg$8rd@knot.queensu.ca> 4jms2@qlink.queensu.ca (Soderlund J Marcus) writes:
[...] consider for 
>example the Gaelic word for a rabbit "kanin" compared to finnish "kaniini".
>Nothing of the kind can be found in either English, Norwegian or Swedish.

See Dutch "konijn" and German "Kaninchen".

[...] Words such as these must have been 
>introduced to Finnish during the viking age, as they have long since 
>disappeared from their original (Norwegian) tongue, to be replaced by 
>other words.

Exactly.
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