Re: HORSA vs. EXWA

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Trond Engen <trond@...> wrote:

>
> > Your putative NEC 'cognate' obviously has nothing to do with
> > reconstruction of a PIE protoform.
>
> The more far out the semantics, the more long range the comparison.
>

Yes, this is precsisely why the IE root reconstructed as *g´hwe:r- 'wild animal' is much older than, say, the IE word for 'bear'.