living fish swims in water

living fish swims in water
the supposed relationship between Finno-Ugric languages (Finnish and Hungarian for example) where these words form the only mutually comprehensible sentence (according to the Estonian philologist Mall Hellam)

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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