Re: Suffix -ock

> I have not thoroughly read it
> but a first impression is that the author tries to spot Baltic on
> the map __AFTER__ he has already put Germanic, Finnic and about
> everybody else in place,
> so that the result of that process is Baltic is reduced to a small
> dot on the corner up right.
> It's likely that after a thorough reading , I should seriously
> disagree with most if not all the contents of this article.
> The date framework is too late,
> Germanic is not supposed to be here, in my point of view,
> Finno-Volgaic was not there already,
> Etc.

Your first impression is that the author has reached other conclusions
than you. When you have read the article you will know why.

> I think each premice in the article has to be examined independently.

Go ahead. Knock yourself out.

> For the time being, I see no reason why I should stop assuming that
> a branch of Balto-Slavic settled in Eastern Scandinavia
> (Finland+Carelia) before Finno-Sabme speakers started invading that
> area sometimes around -2 000 BC.

That would be the time until you've read the article, I gather.

> About 50 lexemata classified by Aikio as substratic are satem.

Which?

> Mallory gives a map of Baltic Rivers within a triangle joining
> Warszawa, Kiev and Moskva.
> I see no reason to decree a northern limit to this Baltic
> hydronymic area.

Because?
There is no way river names north of that line are Baltic or Slavic.


Torsten