Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-

From: tgpedersen
Message: 52517
Date: 2008-02-08

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> The term "livestock" seems to support Piotr, the
> traditional idea of cattle as "money on the go" would
> fit into a nomadic society

Even more so
ON kvíga, < *kwi:Go:n "heifer"
ODa kwegh, Sw.dial. kvek "cattle", MLG quek "horned cattle"
(Da kvaj "idiot")
I kept telling him that it's "mobile property". but he won't budge. ;-)


Torsten