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

On 2008-02-11 14:29, fournet.arnaud wrote:

> Because the late and post-diaspora introduction of horses
> into already scattered IE languages
> is obvious, and therefore a *bad* argument,
> this word <esbo> proves nothing.

*h1ek^wo- is at any rate older than the Satem shift and so can be used
as a lithmus test for Satem languages. Besides, wild horses were once
common all over Eurasia, so the word may be of any age, no matter when
horse domestication took place.

> The word <diza> is better.
>
> What else have we got ?

The hydronym Arzos (*h2arg^-) = 'swift', or 'white', zetraia 'pot'
(*g^Heu-tr/lo-), -zenis (*-g^enh^e:s) in personal names, and a few more
words with very uncertain etymologies.

Piotr