Re: [tied] Re: Dating PIE

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:38:14 -0700 (PDT), george knysh
<gknysh@...> wrote:

>*****GK: May I ask a question here (which is actually
>related to my previous question concerning non-IE
>elements in IE languages)? If Anatolian IE languages
>do not share words re "wheel" "vehicle" and "horse"
>with other IE languages, what is the source for their
>words as to these (for I assume that Hittite etc. do
>have words for "wheel" "vehicle" and "horse" do they
>not?).

Expanding on what Piotr said, one problem in Hittite is that for many
words (especially the more common ones), we simply don't know or are
not 100% sure what the native word was, because of the practice of the
Hittite scribes to use a cuneiform logogram ("Sumerogram", c.q.
"Akkadogram") instead of spelling out the word in syllabic signs. A
case in point is ANS^E.KUR-RA "horse", but there are a number of other
such words.