Re: az+

>And not only because of this, in fact. Which may explain why
>Bulgarians and Slavs may have mixed various gramm. features

Try to write Proto-Bulgarians or Bulg(h)ars whenever referring
to the old population that migrated from the steppes. Otherwise...
confusion.

>So the question would be not how to explain everything through
>Slavic, but how to say which is what.

Nor everything through Iranic: the "substrate" is there, too --
Thracian, Dacian and even Illyrian (incidentally, these also of the
"satem" kind).

>As a would-be linguist you would benefit more from trying to
> > understand such things
>
>It is not a particularly big deal to understand such things. Many
>people learn them by heart without any understanding.

That's... (religious) worshipping, not science...

>Eva

George