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> So, is the s- of *steu-ro- movible? Is it linked to
> Latin taurus, etc.?
> Is it really *s-teu-ro?
My guess is that the word is Semitic, and that Sem. Tawr- (with T
denoting "thorn") was integrated into IE as *(s)tew-ro-, where both s-
movable variants were equally close to the original.