Ah yes. I did hear that Finnish has 'cryogenically frozen' a lot of old Germanic words.  Kuningaz for King, No? Have I remembered it badly?  True. Finnish is very conservative language. It has practically saved ancient forms of proto-germanic language. Word for King is 'kuningas' old english 'cyningaz'. And female form 'kuningatar' which has combined germanic root and finnic ending.       By the way, have you heard the rather amusing theory of the Germanic origin of the word 'Finn' and its rather racy meaning?!? ... :eek   Hmm I've heared lot of theories and celtic/irish word finn means white/pale if I recall it correctly.       Vatukka = raspberry? Looks a bit like Komi votas = berry   'Vatukka' or more commonly 'vadelma' for plain rasberry.       Very common Northern Eurasian [and American??] practice, the bear taboo. Russian has even completely lost the original IE reflex it inherited, and now only has Honey-knower   Yes, one name fort bear is mead-hand or honey-hand 'mesikämmen'.       What about these five;  VERÖS = husband, like Latin virus = man, Irish fir = man, Old English Were = man...   Hmm.. 'vero' means 'tax for govenrment', husband would be aviomies as married man or 'isäntä' as patron. I can't recall anything man-related on that pattern.       PORS' = pig, Latin porcus   Porsas, IE loan meaning 'little pig'. 'Sika' means swine, real pig. 'emakko' is female pig. 'Possu' is most likely diminutive from porsas.       KÖIN = wolf, Latin Canis = dog   Wolf is 'susi' or 'hukka', dog is 'koira'. There might be connection.       KAR = town, Norse gard??   Town is 'kaupunki' place of trade, 'kylä' is village.       SHONDY = the Sun   Sun is 'aurinko'. Shondy doesn't ring my bells.       Kiitos!   Ole hyvä! :)