Old Persian fshu (was: Lislakh)

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

> 2/The Pre Indo-Iranian word "khsher"(milk),den(religion) and shu(sheep) is from proto Arabianic

fs^u: is the Avestan combining form of pasu- '(small) cattle' (as listed in http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:List_of_Proto-Indo-European_roots), so there is no need to resort to Semitic for the source of this word.

Richard.