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

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> On 2008-04-14 20:57, Joao S. Lopes wrote:
>
> > If there's no such cognate in Eastern Europe (at
> least NE Eurpe),
> > Celts-German picked this word from where?
>
> And why should this Celto-Germanic *marko- have to
> be connected with
> <mori> etc.? A vague similarity involving short
> words with commonly
> occurring consonants is hardly compelling.
>
> Piotr

****GK: But if one insists on an Asiatic connection,
there's nothing impossible about a horse merchant from
as far away as the borders of China having travelled
the "Scythian route" described by Herodotus, and made
his way even further west with his animal(s). Totally
unprovable of course, as is the negation of the
possibility.*****

>
>

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