I know that hippos is < h1ekwos, but I'm still not convinced of it. Hippos seems to me too irregular, why not *epos or eppos? It seems like a kind of merge of the IE *ekwos and some non-IE *sikwos or *sipos, or hippos<*h1ekwos, through some para-Greek IE adstratum.
Joao SL
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De: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
Para: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Enviadas: Terça-feira, 17 de Outubro de 2006 2:44:13
Assunto: Re: Res: [tied] Re: Veps "hebon" (horse) - PIE connection?
On 2006-10-17 05:42, Joao S. Lopes wrote:
> Hepon akin to Greek Hippos?
No chance.