Re: [tied] tawros

I understand the "Bull" Cognate is also found in both Kartvellian and
Proto NE Caucasian (at least according to the work of Johanna
Nicholls who has been working in the languages of this region). It
would seem either that bull was a wanderword, or else it was copied
from the language of the first farmers of the region (who are
unlikely to have been Semitic since Semitic languages only became
commonplace AFTER 6,000 BCE.

Regards

John

> > Davius:
> > >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, ...?
> >
> > Also Etruscan /tHevru-mineS/ "Minotaur" (literally "Mine's

bull").

>
> Unless /mine-/ is (Ruhlen's) Proto-World *m-n- "man" etc,

thus "bull-

> man".
>
> Torsten