From: Trond Engen
Message: 68801
Date: 2012-03-06
> At 3:46:53 PM on Monday, March 5, 2012, Tavi wrote:The more far out the semantics, the more long range the comparison.
>
>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
>> <bm.brian@...> wrote:
>
>>>> 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.
>
>> Not impossible. This root is difficult to reconstruct as a
>> single IE protoform because of the various reflexes of the
>> sibilant affricate found in the NEC cognate *XHVr[ts´]V
>> 'marten; otter' and corresponding to the rare cluster
>> *tk´.
>
> Your putative NEC 'cognate' obviously has nothing to do with
> reconstruction of a PIE protoform.