From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 57345
Date: 2008-04-15
----- Original Message -----
From: "george knysh" <gknysh@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:40 AM
Subject: 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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From China, your merchant would have got Camels,
Locally called luo2tuo2.
Arnaud
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