Pre-PIE as a PIE substrate?

[Ante Aikio]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, proto-language wrote:

> Is there an available listing of these substrate roots?

Not a complete one, I'm afraid. But you could use e.g. Juhani Lehtiranta's
"Yhteissaamelainen sanasto" ('common Samic vocabulary') (Mémoires de la
Société Finno-Ougrienne 200 [1989]). It contains 1479 Proto-Samic roots
and references to their etymologies (in the cases where there is one;
Lehtiranta has 637 items with no etymology at all). The glosses are in
Finnish, so you need a dictionary if you don't know Finnish. And if you
are interested in trying to etymologize the roots, you'll at the very
least need a pile of other dictionaries (e.g., of the various Samic
languages) and knowledge of the Samic sound changes in addition to this
(an excellent introduction to Samic linguistics is Pekka Sammallahti's
"The Saami languages: an Introduction").

regards,
Ante Aikio