Domesticating the Horse

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>X99Lynx at aol.com writes:

>>Your saying *-iha denoted a wild animal, but it only shows up in the female
>>ending.  (eg., *ulkwiha, 'she-wolf).

-- to be more precise, that it is the femine ending when denoting a wild
animal.  Thus, *ulkwos, (male) wolf, *ulkwiha (female) wolf.  If the term
"wolf" had denoted a domestic animal, we might expect **ulkweha.

>In Germanic, could <mer(i)ha> have ended in -eha?

-- no.  Eg., OHG 'meriha'.