Re: HORSA vs. EXWA

Tavi:

> I think *jork(´)-o- 'roe deer' is a loanword from the NEC root
> *GHwo:r[ts']o 'deer, game' I've already mentioned. This
> "centumization" is found in other Vasco-Caucasian loanwords already
> described by Starostin in an old
> article<http://newstar.rinet.ru/Texts/iecauc.pdf> .

If there really is such a thing as VC, if it's been correctly
reconstructed, and if these words really are co-original (big ifs, all
three of them), wouldn't it be phonologically far more plausible that
the loan went the other way?

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Trond Engen