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   XPost: soc.culture.baltics, soc-culture.czecho-slovak, soc.culture.russian   
   From: holman@mappi.helsinki.fi   
      
   In article ,   
   b.scott@csuohio.edu wrote:   
      
   > On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:58:40 +0300, Eugene Holman   
   >  wrote in   
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   > in   
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   rec.arts.sf.misc,soc.culture.baltics,soc-culture.czecho-slovak,s   
   c.culture.russian:   
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   > > 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! Finnish has lots of Germanic loanwords, although this particular word   
   probably goes back to Latin: caupo 'innkeeper'. Note also Swedish köping   
   'market town', cf. Linköping, Norrköping, etc. > Finnish kaupunki 'city';   
   Proto-Germanic *skauniz 'beautiful', Visigothic skauns, Swedish skön,   
   German schön, English sheen; Finnish kaunis 'beautiful'.   
      
   Regards,   
   Eugene Holman   
      
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