>>Do you know the form for 'bull' in other languages families from
>>Anatolia, Caucasus, Elam, ...?
>
>Etruscan theuru
I just said that! As for Piotr and the calque idea: How do we know
that Greek didn't calque the Etruscan phrase instead? There's
nothing un-Etruscan about the phrase as far as I see.
Also, it would relate to IE, not Nostratica, because this is evidently
a loanword affecting many language groups including IE.
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