IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>petegray at btinternet.com writes:

>Interestingly, these _failed_ to prove convincingly that Hittite was IE!
>It was the rather obscure -r/-n heteroclite declension that was the final
>clincher for some people.

-- the first indication that Hittite was IE was a lexical term -- the word
for "water", specifically.  ("watar")

If you look through a basic vocabulary list, say:

PIE             Hittite     English

*uet            wett        year
*doru           taru            tree
*iugom          yukan       yoke
*neuo           newas       new
*ueuok          wewakk      demand
*uedor          witar       waters
*esti           es          be
*genu           genu        knee

-- you get, to put it mildly, a very strong indication.