Re: languages of pre-I.E. Europe and onwards

On Jan 21, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
>>>>       There
>>>> are theories that posit an IE origin for Etruscan! And I guess
>>>> you have
>>>> come across the 'IE Pelasgic' theory.
>>>
>>> Sure.  There are some vexing similarities between IE and Etruscan
>>> in the morphology, but by far not enough to establish a
>>> relationship.
>>> Indeed, Uralic is even more similar to IE than Etruscan.
>>
>> Agreed.
>
> Indo-European and Uralic look so similar that one can hardly
> dismiss the impression that they are related to each other,
> though "Proto-Indo-Uralic" (or whatever to call it), if it
> ever existed, must have been spoken about 10,000 years ago,
> if not earlier.  Also, the homelands of PIE and PU are quite
> close to each other.  An IE-Uralic relation was suspected
> already by the venerable Jakob Grimm.
Could you write a little summary of what specifically is similar (or
point to a web page or paper)? Similarly with Etruscan.

(I have wondered if the Latin -alis adjective ending might be related
to or derived from the Etruscan -al genitive, but if so I think it
could easily be borrowed.)