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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "guestu5er" <guestuser.0x9357@...> wrote:
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>
> >>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 he:ahfore)" related?
On 'vacca':
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/45555
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/46275
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/61970
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/61971
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/62983
Cf.
paraveredus "extra horse" -> Pferd and
*hanx-ist-/*hanG-ist- "'hanging' horse" (ie. a horse on a line) -> ON hestr "horse", German Hengst "stallion"
cf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_military_tactics_and_organization#Mobility
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_saddle_reconstruction.jpg
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/65942?var=0&l=1
This became the general word for horse, since it signified "horse without rider"; armies would list their strength as 'x number of cavalry, y number of horse-without-rider". Similarly, words for cattle being mass, to signify a single head of cattle they used the word for "stray cow".
Torsten