"Lexical borrowing was unidirectional, from Indo-European to Uralic."
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Haarmann, Harald 2012: Indo-Europeanization -- Day One. Elite Recruitment and the Beginnings of Language Politics, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. page 84
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