Re: Horse Sense

--- Richard Wordingham <richard@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
> <fournet.arnaud@...>
> wrote:
>
> > There are no horses in Anatolia where PIE
> originates.
>
> Must've been eaten :) There are neolithic horse
> bones at Çatalhöyük.
>
> > The domesticated one is *kuH2on,
>
> So why is the zero grade attested with a short vowel
> (Greek kyn-,
> Sanskrit çun-)? (I think the laryngeal can be dealt
> with in Germanic
> *hunðam > English _hound_.)
>
> > or *do?k or *di?k,
>
> Have you got a cognate for English _dog_? Note that
> the final /g/
> cannot regularly derive from Proto-Germanic.
>
> Richard.

And dig? dug? tug? twig? zweig?



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