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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister wrote:
>
> > Could *horsa- came from Proto- Celtic *kRso-, maybe in the
sense of charriot-horse?
>
> I think we said as much a few years back --that it was probably either
a fast chariot horse or a riding horse as opposed to a cart or plow
horse.
>
As usual, you missed my own reply:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/70744
Not only the Germanic word has a putative Yeniseian cognate, but also
the domestication of the horse is chronologically *older* than the
invention of carts and chariots. Don't forget also that IE languages
have several other 'horse' words, most of which (if not all) are
Wanderwörter.