Domesticating the Horse

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>proto-language at email.msn.com writes:

>>By the way, Pokorny lists *u.lkwi: for 'female wolf'.  Where do you get
>>*ulkwiha?

-- Carl Darling Buck's _A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal
Indo-European Languages_.  Old High German "mariha" is a reflex.

>Well, perhaps. But 'mustang' comes very close, does it not, to being a 'wild
>horse'?

-- "feral horse", actually, rather than "wild".

And it's a recent North American dialect term, borrowed from the Spanish
"mestengo", meaning "a stray or ownerless beast".