Re: [tied] Finnish hevonen "horse"

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 10763
Date: 2001-10-31

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 19:53:01 -0200, "João S. Lopes Filho"
<jodan99@...> wrote:

>I was not saying that *Hek^wos < *s^ekWos, but instead, that perhaps HIPPOS
>came from another source than IE *Hek^wos.

Anything's possible, but it would surprise me very much indeed if
Greek <hippos>, Mycenaean Greek I-QO (presumably for /hikkWos/), were
not derived somehow from PIE *h1ek^wos (albeit through some other
language than Greek).