Re: Res: [tied] Reindeer domestication : two orig ins

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 62055
Date: 2008-12-15

On 2008-12-15 01:51, Joao S. Lopes wrote:

> *k^rh2-ino ?

That would have given something like +xurina- > OE +hyren rather than
*xraina- > hra:n. Incidentally, *k^erh2- means 'head' rather than 'horn'
by itself, as opposed to *k^erh2w-.

Another word often thought to belong here but difficult to derive is OE
hry:þer 'cattle', OHG hrind , MDu. runt, clearly from something like
*k(^)rent-es-/*k(^)rn.t-es- > *xrinþiz- ~ *xrunðiz-. I'm beginning to
wonder if *xurna- 'horn' isn't related to _that_ rather that *k^erh2(w)-.

Piotr