Proto-Altaic: *ba:ku ( -k`-) "small cattle"
Turkic: *ba:kana
Mongolian: *bog
http://tinyurl.com/yryhyp
PIE *pek^u- (*peku-?)
PIE *wakW- "cow"
Skt. vacá:-
Lat. vacca
Proto-Altaic: *bétà / *pédà "sea, ford"
Tungus-Manchu: *pede:-
Korean: *pàtá-h, *pàdár
Japanese: bátá
Comments: An Eastern isogloss, with a peculiar variation of laryngeal
features. Cf. perhaps Mong. bide- (? L 108: bitü-) 'to wander'
http://tinyurl.com/yqpd52
PIE *bher- "take across (water)"
PIE *wad- "wade; ford"
Latin vado: "go", vadum "ford"
PGerm. *wat- "wade; ford"
It is odd that the Altaic forms of these two related glosses seem to
lie "between" what I would call the "northern" (but cf Skt. vacá:-)
and "southern" PIE. Perhaps they are Old European and PIE, or Low and
High, respectively, instead and loans in both places? Did the PIEers
necessarily invent the cow?
On a side note, for some odd reason the Romance languages treat vado:
as a regular Romance word, but vadum as if it were a loan from
Germanic (gu-), although it was proper Latin (but seen as Low?).
Perhaps we could add one more:
Proto-Altaic: *báká ( -o) "to divide"
Tungus-Manchu: *baK-
Japanese: *bàká-
Comments: A Tung.-Jpn. isogloss.
http://tinyurl.com/yryhyp
PIE *pekW- "cook"
PIE *bhag- "divide, distribute"
PGerm. *be:k- "bake"
Related to the same subject(?), distribute the meat.
Torsten