From: dgkilday57
Message: 68944
Date: 2012-03-12
>Yes, a P-Illyrian language, as I have been arguing for years, with Tarentine <-ikkos> borrowed from Messapic (a Q-Ill. lg.). But the Illyrian forms as well as Lusitanian *iccos (the basis of <Iccona> = Gallo-Latin <Epona>) regularly reflect *h1ek^wos and provide no basis for assigning the word to a post-PIE superstrate.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@> wrote:
>
> [... Tavi wrote:]
>
> > > - The IE word 'horse' is irregular in some languages such as Hittite
> and
> > > Greek, pointing to they being loanwords.
> >
> > The Greek reflex is only a little problematic, not enough, IMO, to
> > warrant invoking an external source.
> >
> In all likelihood, the Greek word must have been borrowed from another
> language.