me:
>>I fail to see common words for "horse" in IE,
>>Uralic and/or Altaic but I game in listening to
>>your proposal.
mark o:
>*Markos is the obvious suggestion. English 'mare' is said to be
>decended from it. As for it being pan-Eurasian, well, that's another
>question.
What a horrible movie that was ("All the Pretty Horses"). I mean, sure that
cute guy was in it but what a horribly contrived plot. Sorry, I just had to
get that off my chest.
Anyways, if I recall, Piotr had an issue with *markos being a true IE word
because of the marginality of the evidence (Germanic, Celtic, and gee, what
else other than that?). At any rate, if we can claim that *markos is a
truely ancient IE word, what Uralic or Altaic words could possibly relate to
it and how might we be sure that they aren't just later loans? And *ek^wos
might be formed from the word for "fast". So it doesn't look like it's
possible that this word is inherited either.
Does Uralic have a reconstructed word for "horse"? All I know is Finnish
/hevonen/ which looks like an IE loan, actually.
- gLeN
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