Re: HORSA vs. EXWA

From: Tavi
Message: 68818
Date: 2012-03-07

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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.