Northwest IE attributes

[Steve Gustafson]

JoatSimeon writes:

> But Baltic and Slavic both share dateive and instrumental case endings in
> *-m- rather than in *-bh- as in all other IE languages which still have these
> cases.

> Exemplia, Lithuanian 'vilkams', OCS 'vulkomu', meaning 'to the wolves', but
> Sanskrit 'vrkebhyah'.

> This overlap indicates that after Indo-Iranian had moved far enough away to
> no longer share innovations with, say, Germanic, it was still in contact with
> Baltic and Slavic, and that Baltic and Slavic were still in contact with
> Germanic.

Not sure what it does to your hypothesis, but one of the most dependable
features of Germanic languages with a dative case is, the dative plural ends
in -m.  'To the wolves' in Old Norse is -ulfum-.

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