Pre-PIE as a PIE substrate?

[Rick Mc Callister]

	Does any of this substrate overlap with the so-called "Baltic"
substrate in Germanic; i.e. words of non-IE, non-Uralic origin such as
ship, sea, seal (animal), etc.?

[snip]

>And in addition to this, the western Uralic languages have a huge amount
>of words of unknown origin. It seems that one is dealing here with an
>extensive lexical substrate not unlike that in Germanic. Because the
>putative substrate words look nothing like Indo-European (having e.g.
>affricates and palatalized consonants), there must have been non-Uralic
>and non-IE substrate languages in the Baltic Sea area. The Uralic data
>does not seem to support the idea that there would have been some kind of
>"para-IE" languages in this area before the arrival of the predecessors of
>northwest IE langauges in the region.

>Regards,
>Ante Aikio

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701