Re: [tied] Re: Hittites and others

And we must not to forget the Northwestern *markos (Germanic marha-, Celtic
marcos), which is similar to Altaic and Chinese forms.

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Subject: [tied] Re: Hittites and others


> Piotr, along with what seems to be the majority of respectable
> commentators, place the separation of Anatolian from the rest of IE
> quite deeply back in time. This means Anatolian and the rest of IE
> each enjoyed long periods of independent development, uninfluenced by
> each other.
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> The horse did not attain its overarching IE importance until after
> domestication. The consensus is that the Anatolian branch did not take
> part in domestication, but rather, learned about it, and adopted
> domestic horses afterwards.
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> I suspect the situation with the various equids *before* domestication
> was rather like the situation with cervids in English: we make do with
> one word, 'deer', and add an adjective as needed (e.g., whitetail
> deer). Afterwards, a whole suite of distinguishing terms emerge -- but
> it's as if these terms developed at or just after breakup.
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