Fallow Deer/A Closer Look

proto-language proto-language at email.msn.com
Fri Jun 8 19:24:34 UTC 2001


Dear Steve and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: <X99Lynx at aol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 11:54 PM

> In a message dated 6/4/2001 2:30:01 AM, edsel at glo.be writes:

>>> Damate:r - Dor., Arc., Thess. and Boeot. form of goddess Demeter

<snip>

> OR spouse.  Are you familiar with how the wildman Enkidu was tamed in
> Gilgamesh, an epic that might predate the earliest IE texts by 1500 years?
> (And then again there's "the taming of the shrew.")

[PCR]
I believe that's: "the taming with the screw".

Pat

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