European hydrotoponymy (IV): tug of war between Balto-Slavic and West Uralic

In his recent paper on Late Proto-Indo-European migrations, when citing Udolph to support his model, Frederik Kortlandt failed to mention that the Old European hydrotoponymy in northern Central-East Europe evolved into Baltic and Slavic layers, and both take part in some Northern European (i.e. Germanic – Balto-Slavic) commonalities. Proto-Slavic From Expansion slavischer Stämme aus namenkundlicher … Continue reading European hydrotoponymy (IV): tug of war between Balto-Slavic and West Uralic