From: Tavi
Message: 68818
Date: 2012-03-07
>Ok, but as Germanic has its own 'horse' word, we must assume their riding horses had a different origin than common IE *h1ek´w-o-, of Caucasian origin.
> It seems to me that we hashed this out around 10 years ago or so. Native European horses, as I understand, were either ponies or draft horses --used for pulling carts.>Riding horses, as I remember reading in various posts, were introduced from Eurasia, from the area between the Caucasus and China.> Just as we have a separate name for pony, it would have made sense to have a separate name for a riding horse --horsa
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