IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

[petegray]

On Hittite and other IE langs:
> If you look through a basic vocabulary list, say:
...
> -- you get, to put it mildly, a very strong indication.

Of course, we do now.   My point was that the relationship was not
recognised for some time, and even resisted for a time, despite exactly what
you say.

Like it or not, it is a historical fact that such lists failed to convince -
even if they should have.

Peter