From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 57249
Date: 2008-04-13
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> I believe that *ek^(-)wo-s is compounded of of the initial segments *e-
> (cf. *ai-ra:, 'kind of grass'), '*grass' + *k^(h)e-, 'deer', so that the
> compound should have the core meaning of 'grass-deer'.
> Old habits die hard.
> Patrick