Re: Allofamy, allofams

> If one accepts that

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> with the general meaning of "rein, impede" might be related to
> the "horse" sense (as "the reined (vz. domesticated) animal")

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> and that all the *kWVnk-, *kVnk-, *wVnk-, *Vnk- "hook, bend" words,

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> might be names of the tool (noose?) with which the domestication
> was effected, the whole thing inflates mightily.

Look for 'noose' in
http://www.montanaheritageproject.org/index.php/teacherlore/C223/
http://www.imh.org/imh/kyhpl4c.html
http://www.bartleby.com/54/3.html


I'll settle for "round, loop" -> "noose" as the original meaning of
this set of allofams.


Torsten