Muinainen Suomi

The meanings 'weave' and 'morning, dawn' appear to be completely unrelated, which implies that these must be instances of coincidental homonymy. It appears rather improbable that a correspondence like this was produced by chance, considering that lexical homonymy is a rare phenomenon, and only extremely few homonyms have even been reconstructed into the two language families in the first place. The example strongly suggests that there has been some kind of historical connection between the two language families, but more exact conclusions cannot be drawn in the present state of research. The existence of such parallels suggests that future research should evaluate the possible connections of Proto-Uralic to Proto-Eskimo-Aleut as thoroughly as those to Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Yukaghir.