Re: Res: [tied] "Five Different Indo-European roots for 'horse'"

From: mkelkar2003
Message: 46519
Date: 2006-11-02

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@> wrote:
> >
> > What were these five roots?
> >
> > *ek^wos, *markos (*mH2orkos?), ...
> >
>
> Please check:
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> Coleman, R. (1988), "Comment on A.C. Renfrew: Archaeology and
> Language," Current Anthropology, 29, 449-453.
>
> M. Kelkar
>
> [Moderator's comment: This posting is not very helpful if Joao does
not have access to a library that takes this journal. For that reason
I delayed approval. - Richard.]


The five roots are:

*marko in Old Welsh march
*kurs in OE hors
*a2er in Lithuanian arklys
*kob in OCS konj
*ekwos Latin equus, Vedic asvah

Please check p. 450 of Archaeology and Language Current
Anthropology.pdf in teh files section

M. Kelkar