Re: HORSA vs. EXWA

At 8:45:05 AM on Monday, March 5, 2012, guestu5er wrote:

>>Germanic *xurs-a-/*xrus-a- 'horse'

> BTW, if <horse>, <hros>, <Ross> are loanies from the
> Alanian-Iranian *urSa & al. Asian vocabularies, has Lat.
> ursus the same (PIE) origin?

Like Gk. ἄρκτος (árktos), it's from *h2rtk^o- 'bear', though
Sihler suggests that it may have passed into Latin from
another dialect.

Brian