>>[A]
>>I'm quoting V.Illich-Svitych, 1971 (Opyt sravneniya nostraticheskich
>>yazykov):
> >
> > Root # 173. *kOr'i - 'lamb, sheep'
>
>[...] I have wondered though whether the linguistics related to
>sheep have been a "wonderword", moving with the first people
>who domesticated sheep and passed on to those who adopted sheep
>from their neighbours. [...] Do you as a practicing linguist know
>how one detects the presence of a wonder word

The word for "sheep" must obviously be a later wanderword (erh,
not "wonderword") keeping in mind archaeological considerations.
Plus, I'm suspecting that IE *ker- is Semitish (or "ultimately of
Semitic origin" for the faint of heart) like many other words
that show up in Bomhard's list of Nostratic reconstructions
mysteriously having only AA and IE cognates.


- love gLeN


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