# Finnish linguistics

**URL:** <http://discourse.iapct.org/t/finnish-linguistics/4415>\
**Category:** CSG1998\
**Created:** [December 16, 1998, 10:16am UTC](http://discourse.iapct.org/t/finnish-linguistics/4415 "1998-12-16T10:16:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dick\_Robertson](http://discourse.iapct.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Dick\_Robertson](http://discourse.iapct.org/u/Dick_Robertson)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 1998, 10:16am UTC](http://discourse.iapct.org/t/finnish-linguistics/4415/1 "1998-12-16T10:16:11Z")

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[From Dick Robertson,981216.0414CST]

[From Rupert Young (981215.1134 UT)]

> I did get this response from Jarvilehto,

> > I took a look at the Websites you indicated and I can seen many  
> > commonalities indeed.  
> > Thank you for your contact. I must read more about PCT!

> so at the moment he's saying he did not have "intimate relations with that  
> theory". I believe him.

> He also told me that his second name is Wilhelm and a Finnish friend tells me  
> that "jarvilehto" is the Finnish word for "power". Spooky or what ?

Well, my Finnish-American wife is puzzled. She asked if you would get your  
Finnish friend to explain, "how does \_beach-grove\_ get to be \_power\_? Also,  
what do the words, \_valta\_ and \_voima\_ mean to him?" To her j„rvi means,  
\_lake\_, or in its older meaning, \_shore\_, or \_beach\_, and lehto means \_copse\_  
or \_grove\_. BTW her mother's maiden name was J„rvi, and her aunt was married  
to a man named, Lehto.

Hoping not to confuse the issue,

Best, Dick R.

Regards,  
Rupert

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**Author:** ![Rupert\_J\_Young](http://discourse.iapct.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rupert\_J\_Young](http://discourse.iapct.org/u/Rupert_J_Young)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 1998, 11:33am UTC](http://discourse.iapct.org/t/finnish-linguistics/4415/2 "1998-12-16T11:33:19Z")

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[From Rupert Young (981216.1130 UT)]

Dick Robertson,981216.0414CST]

> \>He also told me that his second name is Wilhelm and a Finnish friend tells me  
> \>that "jarvilehto" is the Finnish word for "power". Spooky or what ?
> 
> Well, my Finnish-American wife is puzzled. She asked if you would get your  
> Finnish friend to explain, "how does \_beach-grove\_ get to be \_power\_? Also,  
> what do the words, \_valta\_ and \_voima\_ mean to him?"

Actually it was a joke. Or perhaps not.

Regards,  
Rupert