Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >> >> As for the UK: >> >> Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta > > About the only part of that that I understand is "kuning" == > king/queen/kingdom. I swear, you like the letter 'y' more than the > Welsh do...
The Proto-Finnic borrowed the word "kuningas" from the Proto-Germanic, where it was "kuningaz". The Germanic descendant languages have mangled the original quite a bit: English: king German: König Swedish: kung See also: <URL: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=king>. The word "yhdistynyt" ultimately comes from the Proto-Uralic word "*ükte" ("one"). The word "kunta" ("society") is in its Proto-Uralic form. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
