--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> On 2007-07-26 18:21, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen wrote:
>
> > Actually, it's Celtic *wer-reidos, not *wo-; you ride on top of a
> > horse, not underneath it :-)
>
> Why not 'a secondary mount', like Pol. podjezdek 'a horse to be ridden
> by servants or messengers'?
>
> Piotr
*****
Then the linguistic ancestors of der Pferd were twice promoted
from second string to first, despite the Celtic *wo- and the
Greco-Latin para-. Quite upwardly mobile, as the sociologists would
put it.
Is *wer-reidos actually attested in a Celtic language in any form,
or is it only an etymologist's logical explanation of the Latin?
Dan