Re: HORSA vs. EXWA

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" wrote:

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> Why do not relate *xorsa- "horse" to PIE *kers- "to run"? Or are they cognates of Portuguese corço, corça "hind (fem.), roe-deer, deer (masc.)?
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That's right. Germanic *xursa-/*xrussa- 'horse' comes from IE *krs- 'to run', which I regard as a pre-Kurganic word cognate to Yeniseian *ku?s 'horse' and NEC *GHwo:r[tS?]o 'deer, game'. The latter would be linked to Spanish corzo/a and Portuguese corço/a.

By contrast, the Kurganic cognate would be *jork-o- 'deer' (Celtic, Greek), with metathesis as *j- would correspond to the NEC affricate.