[[history]] --- [[didier2009]] [[y-berezkin2010]] [[hernykh2017]] [[sergent2018]] ## Ymir & Auðhumla "Many years ago, I sought to interpret [Ymir](ymir.md) and [Auðhumla](authhumla.md) as inherited from a braod "Indo-European tradition," but I would now be more inclined to see a more fluid Eurasian continuum." See (b-lincoln1981:69-95) & (b-lincoln2003:59-76). # Eurasian Language Lexical Comparison (I only noted the convincing and interesting ones) Honey [*mal] PIE *meli0t Proto-Altaic *malV ‘honey, plant oil’ Proto-Turkic *bạl ‘?’ Proto-Tungus *mala ‘plant oil, sesame oil’ Chukotian: Chukchi mel’ac Spring (time) [nyar] PIE *iero, ioro, iero ‘young animal, year, new season, spring’; *yēr- ‘year’ Proto-Altaic *niara ‘young, spring, summer’ Proto-Turkic *jār Water 1 [*akwa] PIE *akwa, ekhw ‘water, river’ Proto-Uralic *yoka ‘river’ Proto-Altaic *iaka ‘liquid, flow’ Proto-Turkic *iak ‘to flow’ Water 2 [*mor] PIE *mori ‘sea’ Proto-Altaic *miuri Wolf [*luk] PIE *ulkwos (Gr. lukos, Sanskrit vrkas, Lat. lupus, Lith. vilks, etc.) Proto-Altaic *luk, noka ‘lynx, wild cat’ Proto-Tungus *lukV ‘(young) lynx, blue fox’- Woman [*kun] PIE *gewna, kwen Proto-Altaic *kune, gune ‘one of several wives’