Horses

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>mcv at wxs.nl

>But if Renfrew is right, and PIE did come from Anatolia, an *ek^wos (or
>however it sounded at *that* time) meaning "donkey" would have trivially
>drifted to "horse" in the horse-rich (donkey-poor) environment of Northern and
>Eastern Europe. >>

-- but it doesn't mean "donkey" in Anatolian, the earliest attested IE
language of the area, and Armenian is intrusive there.