Horses

[Wolfgang Schulze]

"Patrick C. Ryan" wrote:

> [PR]
> In this connection, one might want to notice Egyptian s(j)s(j), 'hurry', and
> ssm, 'horse'; could these be connected with IE *se:i-, 'throw'?

'Horse' = an animal which throws the rider from its back???? If you relate
Egyptian s(j)s(j) 'hurry' to ssm 'horse' (which sounds reasonable as for the
semantics), what can you tell us about the final -m in Egyptian? Is it
derivationbal? What function? What, if ssm stems from something like *sm with
initial reduplication? No *zizi or what so ever connection anymore!

By the way: Why is it so difficult to accept that Sumerians used to term horses
'donkeys (that stem from / of) the mountains' and that they might have used the
term ans^e-kur(r)a as it appears ('phonetically' speaking)?

Wolfgang

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