Re: [tied] Re: Indo-European for Indo-European

But there's two differente roots raks-:

1- *xlek(^)s- : raks- "to protect" (cf. Greek alex-)

2- * Hreg^HdH-- "to harm" (cf. Greek Erekhth-)

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From: Richard Wordingham

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Subject: [tied] 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.

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