ABSTRACT
Though they are structurally heterogeneous, there is no doubt that the Uralic languages are genetically related, and much research has gone towards recon struction of the parent language and identification of its habitat. The presence of common roots denoting deciduous trees and terms connected with apiculture, suggest an U rheim at to the west, rather than to the east of the Urals. The absence of a common root for ‘beech’, however, which does not grow east of the Baltic-Black Sea line, may be taken as indicative of a western limit. O ther notable lacunae are terms for the sea, rocks, sand, the tundra, and so on. On the whole, the evidence points to an original Uralic habitat between the middle course of the Urals and the Volga.
