From: frabrig
Message: 71800
Date: 2014-09-30
> Horse is called haya in Sanskrit. I am looking for an equivalent word in
> other IE languages and PIE. Let me know if anything is close to "haya".
> Of course aswa is more commonly used for horse in Sanskrit.
If you can read French, the following article by Charles de Lamberterie -- an Indo-Europeanist specializing in Armenian -- provides the state of the art on the posited genetic relationship of Sanskrit haya and Armenian ji, both meaning 'horse':
(open this link by using, alternatively, either Internet Explorer and Google Chrome to be able to view all the pages of the article)
Kind regards,
Francesco Brighenti