Dating the final IE unity, in particular the word for "horse"

Vidhyanath Rao rao.3 at osu.edu
Fri Mar 17 10:30:11 UTC 2000


"Gábor Sándi" <g_sandi at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 'land' and 'milk' are even less indicative - why could
> hunter gatherers not have words for them?

If `milk' is not derived from `mother's milk', why would those who do
not use milk have a word for it? Isn't that the whole point of dating by
the ``secondary products revolution''?



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