Re: tawros

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "S.Kalyanaraman" <kalyan97@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Davius Sanctex"
> <gruposdavius@...> wrote:
> > proto-semitic: *thawr- 'bull' [arabic thawru, hebrew sho:r,

aramic

> tawr, ...]> proto-IE: *tawros / *tarwos 'bull'

> > Do you know the form for 'bull' in other languages families from
> Anatolia, Caucasus, Elam, ...?

> (Skt.Ka.)stho_ra beast of burden (BHSkt.); stho_rin, sthaurin pack-
> horse (Skt.); stwr horse (Pahl.); stora horse (NiDoc.); storavara
> horseman (NiDoc.); isto_r horse (Kho.)

This looks like the (s)th2eu-ro root Sergei mentioned at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/17789 . Might it be
a derivative?

Richard.