Re: IE & Uralic

> There are some things in Slavic that are reminiscent of similar
> features in Fennic, ie. the use of the genitive in Slavic and the
> partitive in Fennic in negative contexts, where the rest of IE would
> use a nominative (afaIk). Also, Estonian (and the rest of Fennic?) has
> a special verb sajama for precipitation, Russian (and Slavic?) uses
> the standard IE movement verb *i- "go" for precipitation, where the
> rest of IE has kept separate verbs for rain, snow etc. Perhaps Slavic
> developed on a Fennic substrate?

Oh, and btw: The Slavic m/n genitive is from the thematic PIE ablative
('from-case') in *-od (spread in Italic, to athematic stems (*-d),
they say, but maybe original?), and the Fennic partitive suffix is *-t
(FU separative *-tI*/-tA). Hm.


Torsten