Re: Horse Sense

>> There are no horses in Anatolia where PIE originates.

>Must've been eaten :) There are neolithic horse bones at Çatalhöyük.

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Not Neolithic.
- 2000 is well beyond Neolithic.
Arnaud
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>> 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_.)

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Another possibility is *kuH1on? (to account for Chinese quan2)
Maybe it's better.
Arnaud
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>> 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.

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It looks like a LW,
but NWB does not help, as we might expect *dikk- or *dokk-
Arnaud
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