Yitzhak, thank you for this. But note that in the post you are replying
to I did not mention Nostratic, only Proto-Indo-European, whose
reconstruction is much more solidly based. Indeed I mentioned Nostratic
only in a PS to my earlier post. What I wrote did not at all depend on
anyone's Nostratic theories, only on the correspondences between
carefully reconstructed proto-forms of various language families.
Such things are indeed possible. But, as I think is widely recognised,
morphological suffixes of the kind I have been looking at are about the
least likely language features to be borrowed between languages even in
close contact.
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