Re: Whores are cows and vice versa

From: guestu5er
Message: 68518
Date: 2012-02-09

>>Balto-Slavic *kárwa:
>>as a loan from proto-Celtic: *k^erh2wah2 > *karawa: (Joseph's Law)
>> --> BSl. *kar&wa:.

Are *karawa: and Iran. *xaraka ("donkey") as well as Iran. *watsa, *wassa(ka), basaka "calf, young cow, heifer (OE hÄ"ahfore)" related?

George

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