Re: marko- = horse non IE ?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 6:21 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: marko- = horse non IE ?






--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Cuadrado" <dicoceltique@...> wrote:

> Hello i would like to come back to topic Marko = Horse
>
> Celtic/Germanic marko- = horse

> Romanian murg- = horse

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James Matisoff reconstructs the Proto-Tibeto-Burman form as *mraN-
(also *sraN-, *kmraN-); Starostin, as *mra:N- (or *mra:H-). Neither
of the two scholars connects these reconstucted proto-words
for 'horse' with the similar IE or Altaic words, although I am aware
that some other scholars have done that. I invite comments on *this*
specific etymological issue.

Best,
Francesco

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