From: Tavi
Message: 66118
Date: 2010-05-05
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:
>On the one hand, we've got Paleo-Eurasian *n^- > Paleo-European *dh- (I'm using the standard PIE notation) > Latin d-. And on the other, PIE *d- < Paleo-Eurasian *t?-.
> > Is Latin da:(m)ma akin to Greek damale "young cow" and Celtic dam ?
> > Any relation to *demh2- "to tame" ?
>
> The answer to the first question is "possible", and to the second one,
> "highly unlikely".
>
I could add there's a possible related AA root *dama?/y- 'a k. of antelope'.