Re: Res: Res: [tied] Origin of *marko- (was: Hachmann versus Kossack

--- george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
> --- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> > On 2008-04-14 20:57, Joao S. Lopes wrote:
> >
> > > If there's no such cognate in Eastern Europe (at
> > least NE Eurpe),
> > > Celts-German picked this word from where?
> >
> > And why should this Celto-Germanic *marko- have to
> > be connected with
> > <mori> etc.? A vague similarity involving short
> > words with commonly
> > occurring consonants is hardly compelling.
> >
> > Piotr
>
> ****GK: But if one insists on an Asiatic connection,
> there's nothing impossible about a horse merchant
> from
> as far away as the borders of China having travelled
> the "Scythian route" described by Herodotus, and
> made
> his way even further west with his animal(s).
> Totally
> unprovable of course, as is the negation of the
> possibility.*****
> >

My understanding is that horses were domesticated from
about 5 or so wild subspecies, all of which have died
out in the wind, except for Przewalski''s horse. As I
remember, these include the pony, the European forest
horse (ancestor of the draft horse), the ancestor of
the riding horse, the Caucasus horse (ancestor of the
Arabian?), and the tarpan.
So perhaps the *markos was the ancestor of the riding
horse
But that's just speculation


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