[tied] Re: laguage of bird names ?= Old European

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brent J. Ermlick" <brent3@...>
wrote:

> In article <local.pie/bur23n+c8ov@...> tgpedersen

<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> . . .
> > Kuhn also notes that oldest PIE words for cattle raising and
> > agriculture (Viehzucht und Ackerbau, to avoid terminological
> > confusion) have almost no /a/'s, whereas the names of younger
> > domesticated animals, ie goat, goose, duck and chicken, is full
> > of /a/'s. According to Gimbutas, the kurgan/corded ware culture
>
> My memory might be faulty, but I thought that chickens were a late
> domesticate from India and started to appear in the Mediterranean

in

> the later half of the 1st millenium BCE.
>
> Can anybody confirm or reject this?

Piotr has, at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/15944 ,
in response to a vague feeling of their being introduced in Roman
times.

Richard.