What is "North Venetic"? (was: PIE suffix =t in food?)

Hallo Indo-Europeanists!

On Friday 23 November 2012 02:25:40 johnvertical wrote:

> [...]
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> > Anatolian and Tocharian are ruled out, but Venetic would work, with
> > vocalization of PIE syllabic */r./ to *-or- as in Latin.
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> I see. But do we run into problems since this item is found in Mordvinic as
> well? How far east can North Venetic be assumed to have been spoken?

What is "North Venetic"? And why does Venetic figure at all in
this discussion of language contact between IE and Uralic
languages? The only Venetic I know of is an IE language of
ancient northeastern Italy that probably was closely related to
Italic - and *never* was spoken anywhere near *any* Uralic
language.

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