Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?

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From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?


>
> >>> 9. The richness of the vocabulary related to horses in
> >>> Germanic is an indication that proto-Germanic-speakers
> >>> took an active part in the horse domestication. Cf.
> >>> mar-ko < LW of Asiatic *mor-(?)-
> >
> >> But cf. Celtic *markos 'horse' (Old Irish _marc_, Welsh
> >> _march_, apparently also in Gaulish). Pokorny erects PIE
> >> *marko-.
> >
>
> >
> > This word is probably a "Wanderwort" of eastern origin,
> > that established itself in Celtic and Germanic alongside
> > the inherited PIE word for 'horse', *h1ek'wos (OIr. ech).
> > Attempts to connect it to Skt. márya- 'youth, foal' are
> > not convincing (Celtic points to non-IE a-vocalism of
> > *marko-).
> >
> > Brian
> >
> ============
> Asiatic languages have *mor(?)
> which makes it impossible that the wanderwort could be marko
> mor(?-) became *mar- in a language that has *o >a.
>
> We have already discussed the fact that hekwos (I don't even bother to put
> an asterisk on that thing) is not a possible word.
>
> Arnaud
>
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For whatever it may be worth, my own work suggests to me that a very early
form for the word was *mo:r-.

Patrick