From: Rick McCallister
Message: 66966
Date: 2010-12-14
It's not the subject but the sniping that is off-topic here.
If there are non-IE subtrate words in Baltic or Slavic not explanable by Uralic or Turkic (or the descendants of these), then the question of substrate in Balto-Finnic or Uralic is definitely relavent.
Work together to see if such a possibility is valild.
My understanding is that Baltic and Slavic have much fewer subtrate etyma than other IE languages, but I may be wrong --let me know.