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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, x99lynx@... wrote:
> And, in all of this, one of my favorite words is the Greek <orsi-
pous, > orsi-podos> "swift-footed", applied to deer, but just as
appropriate for a > horse. Even a horse advertised as swift-footed
and sold to some > horse-trading Germanic speaking customers, way
back when -- who went home > having bought an "orsi-".
Yes, Steve. In the passion for *ekWos-, we seem to forget that there
could have been many words for horse. See Sanskrit for e.g.:
kurut.in
pelin
prothin
kindhin
kin.vin
kilkin
kilvin
ki_kat.aka (a particular horse, perhaps a pony)
koka_ha (a white horse)
haya
coska (a Sindhu horse)
ma_s.a_s'a
Is it not likely that the speakers in Sindhu valley would have had
words which distinguished a pony (34-ribbed one) from an equus
caballus (38-ribbed one)? [Even allowing for the number of ribs
being just a mutation, the size difference -- height measured in
terms of hasta-s (hands) -- would have been stark indeed.]
hes.in (also, neighing)