John:
>Ineresting. Glen, does this mean that you don't subscribe to a Proto-
>Hurrian origin for the word for Bull.
That's correct. I don't recall Proto-HU or Proto-NEC having a word for
"bull" that could explain the Semitic form in a satisfactory way (which
is not to say that the NEC forms aren't related to *Tawru-).
Again, I think the Kartvelian form is borrowed. Agriculture may have
been pioneered by Caucasic speaking people but does this mean that
they necessarily invented wine? I had the impression that wine (or at
least the wine word) came from the Balkans. Thoughts?
- gLeN
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