Re: Res: [tied] Origin of *marko- (was: Hachmann versus Kossack?)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> I wrote a few days ago.
> Proto-Germanic borrowed an Asiatic word and transmitted it to Celts
> when proto-Germanic entered Europe.
> Cf. Mongolian and alias *mor
>
> The slavic word *ar/or is interesting too.
> What about Turcic *ar-qun "a cross-bred horse" ?
> in Starostin
>
> I told you PIE did not invent domestication of horses.
> All these words are borrowed.

I'm afraid I disagree. I think your approach is completely
backwards. Before positing borrowing you should figure out which
languages are actually IE.

It was hard for me to believe, but previous classifications of the
world's languages are completely wrong.