Re: Res: [tied] Re: marko- = horse non IE ?

--- In cybalist@... s.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@. ..> wrote:
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> > 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".
>
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?-.

I could add there's a possible related AA root *dama?/y- 'a k. of antelope'. 

 

There was a discussion years ago on dama --or more likely 2 or 3 discussions, check the logs. The dama antelope also lives/d in Anatolia

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