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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> It isn't a priori impossible that a Mongolian word spread

westwards,

> passed along by the Scythians, Thracians etc., and ending up in
> Proto-Germanic and Celtic as a word for a 'saddle-horse'. But as an
> etymology, it's just a shot in the dark without any supporting
> evidence. Where is the attestation of *mar(ko)- in Iranian or
> Thracian? Who, when and why extended it with a suffix?
>
> Piotr
>

just additional information:

- there is a Marcodava in Dacia. No idea if *mark here should mean
horse
- there is a "mârtsoagã" in Romanian and a "marcina" in Bulgarian,
words which should be related to horse.
(Rom. "ts" and Bulg. "c" = German "z")


Alex