Re: Finnic substrate in Slavic?!

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> > For 2 & 3: NB that the Finnic partitiv also descends from an Uralic
> > ablativ, so if we interpret this as influence it can go either way.
> > Also the phonetical similarity (cognancy?) of these case-markers
> > exists between IE and Uralic as a whole, not just Finnic and Slavic.
>
> IIRC, the -d/-t ablative suffix is documented only in Italic and Indo-Iranian.
>

You can probably add Celtic to that. Celtiberian has an ablative in <-z>, from older *-d, as shown by Villar.

Anders