Joao wrote
> There's no possibility of PIE had a word for "monkey", unless we
consider PIE as coming from Tibet, the more northern region in Asia
where there are monkeys.The Germanic word must have a North African
or
Indian origin, but I can't realize by what way.
There is evidence of Tigers and monkeys in the rainforests that used
to exist on the southern shores of the Caspian sea, at least until
the
times of the Abbasid Caliphate of the Middle Ages. So there may have
been cognates in the pre-Armenian languages of this region.
(Hurro-Urartuean anyone?)
Regards
John