Re: [tied] Re: Hittites and others

--- Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:36:45 -0700 (PDT), george
> knysh
> <gknysh@...> wrote:
>
> >it
> >strains credulity to think that the
> proto-Anatolians
> >would have had to wait a couple of thousand years
> >before they learned about this. Or developed the
> >notion of "foreign donkey" while still to the west
> of
> >the Bosphorus.
>
> The notion was developed by Sumerians. It has
> absolutely nothing to
> do with (proto-)Anatolians.

******GK: Exactly my point. (a) I don't think the view
that proto-Anatolians knew nothing about horses or did
not have a term for this animal in their language is a
tenable one. Not if one accepts the late 3rd mill. BC
as the time frame for the eastward migration's serious
beginning. What this word was we don't know. But the
Luwian evidence suggests a satemized version as a
possibility.(b) The adoption of the term "foreign
donkey" by the Hittites would thus have occurred in
Anatolia itself, and would have been a local borrowing
or construction.******

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