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

--- On Mon, 12/15/08, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> From: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
> Subject: Re: Res: [tied] Reindeer domestication : two orig ins
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, December 15, 2008, 2:30 AM
> 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

Yes, the source of Rinderpest. from (pre-)Afrikaans rind "cow", right?