Re: HORSA vs. EXWA

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 68845
Date: 2012-03-09




From: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2012 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: HORSA vs. EXWA

Precisely. So it quite simpoly *isn't* the original 'bear' word, just as
English <deer> (though derived from a PIE root) does not reflect a PIE
(or even PGmc.) 'deer' word. 


***R
Which would be from the IE original: hart or roe(buck)? Or both? 
The vocabulary, as you point out, is often determined by dominion --priestly taboos words or hunter's terms. In the US, most hunters refer to deer by sex --as "bucks" or "does". My next-door neighbor feeds his whole extended family on 25 to 30 every season.