Re: Veps "hebon" (horse) - PIE connection?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "C. Darwin Goranson"
<cdog_squirrel@...> wrote:

>
> I happened upon a CD that included a song in the Vepsian or Veps
> language. One of the verses goes as follows (since this can't handle
> hacheks, sh and zh are as in SHould and fuSIon):
>
> Mushtan hebon, mushtan kor'jan,
> mushtan, mish me shurguimae.
> Mushtan mutsuizhen pertiizhen,
> mish me erigean'ziimae.
>
> I remember the horse, I remember the sledge,
> I remember(,) where we sledged.
> I remember the small farmhouse(,)
> where we said goodbye.
>
> The similarity between "hebon" and h1ek^won (even in the grammatical
> case!) stood out at once. If this were a borrowing from PIE, then we
> have evidence of h1.
>

Finnish hepo- > hevonen - horse.

This word does not appear in FU outside Baltic Fennic. It's etymology
is given as 'unkown'.

Peter P