Re: Again with the PIE homeland thing- RE: *(s)teuros

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "etherman23" <etherman23@...> wrote:

> If the PIE root is *(s)taur then we have an apparent violation of

root

> constraints. PIE didn't have any roots with a diphthong followed by a
> resonant. That suggests a borrowing. If we analyze the root as *(s)

tau

> instead then the comparison breaks down because of the *r in the
> Semitic form.

I have a second thought: It now looks to me more like a case of
borrowing back and forth. We may begin with IE *stéwH-ro-/*stuH-ró-,
whence German Stier and OIc. thjórr. That appears to have been
integrated into Semitic as *Tawr- (nom. *Tawr-u), which may in turn
have been borrowed back into IE yielding Lat. taurus, Gk. taûros,
Lith. tau~ras (Celtic *tarwos by adjustment to *karwos 'stag'). I
think that accomodates just about everything.

Jens