Domesticating the Horse

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>X99Lynx at aol.com writes:

>This should apply to other domestics and wild species, but I'm pretty sure
>it doesn't.

-- *H(1)el(1)niha, "female elk", which is a feminine noun regularly derived
from *h(1)elh(1)en, "elk".

etc.

>and that use is obviously derivative.

-- well, of course it is.  It's the way you made the ending for a feminine
noun when the subject was a wild animal.  See above for 'elk'.