Re: Indo-European for Indo-European

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "lifeiscool86" <lifeiscool86@...>

wrote:

> Cows and horses unique to the IEs? Lots of other people had them

too.

> But if you need a term like "Horse-lord", *h1ek^wo-poti-

("Equopotis")

> could do. The word for an IE cowboy might have been *gWou-h2ag^o-
> ("Gwouhagos") 'cattle drover', *gWou-pah2- ("Gwoupah") 'cowherd' or
> anything similar with the second element meaning 'owner, master,
> protector, grazier' etc. Lotsa roots to choose from. There are also
> Indo-Iranian-style adjectives like *gWou-ment- 'having many cows'.

I was about to propose the antecedent of Gurkha (< Sanskrit
goraks.a 'cowherd') when I discovered that although Sanskrit raks.ati
means 'protect', Sanskrit raks.as- means 'agony' and its PIE ancestor
(root reconstructed by Pokorny as rek^Th-, #1611) means 'harm'!

Richard.