XPost: soc.culture.baltics, soc-culture.czecho-slovak, soc.culture.russian   
   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:06:48 +1200, Zeborah   
    wrote in   
    in   
   rec.arts.sf.misc,soc.culture.baltics,soc-culture.czecho-slovak,s   
   c.culture.russian:   
      
   > Brian M. Scott  wrote:   
      
   >> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:58:40 +0300, Eugene Holman   
   >>  wrote in   
   >>  in   
   >> rec.arts.sf.misc,soc.culture.baltics,soc-culture.czecho-slovak,soc.culture   
   >> .russian:   
      
   >>> During the entire existence of this asymmetrical trade the   
   >>> buzzword was "mutually beneficial trade relations"   
   >>> (*molemminpuolisesti hyödylliset kauppasuhteet*).   
      
   >> I take it that  is a borrowing from Germanic?   
      
   > Yes; from Swedish IIRC.   
      
   Looks to me to be of ON vintage (ON ).  I think that   
   the geminate () shows that it's not a borrowing from   
   PGmc., though.   
      
   Brian   
      
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