Latin and Slavonic for `moon'

JoatSimeon at aol.com JoatSimeon at aol.com
Wed Apr 7 07:22:47 UTC 1999


X99Lynx at aol.com writes:

>Since  horses came from the east

-- PIE already had a word for horse.  (*ekwos)  Horses were domesticated
around 4000 BCE (almost certainly by PIE speakers) and the domestic horse was
present in central and northern Europe during the 4th millenium BCE.

>Once the horse became domesticated, the  Slavs/Scythians/generic-IE-nomads,
>who didn't have herding dogs on the steppes

-- !!!!



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