Despite recurring statements to the contrary, there is no evidence of a Uralic substratum in Common Slavic. Northwestern Uralic was separated from Slavic by Baltic, therefore direct contacts between (Proto-)Finnic and Slavic only began with the Slavic expansion from the mid-1st millennium CE onward. The Slavicization of northern and central Russia gave rise to contacts of diverse types at different times, while, from the…