Re: [tied] tawros

From: tgpedersen
Message: 29105
Date: 2004-01-05

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:
>
> Davius:
> >proto-semitic: *thawr- 'bull' [arabic thawru, hebrew sho:r, aramic
tawr,
> >...]
> >proto-IE: *tawros / *tarwos 'bull'
> >
> >Do you know the form for 'bull' in other languages families from
Anatolia,
> >Caucasus, Elam, ...?
>
> Also Etruscan /tHevru-mineS/ "Minotaur" (literally "Mine's bull").

Unless /mine-/ is (Ruhlen's) Proto-World *m-n- "man" etc, thus "bull-
man".

Torsten