Domesticating the Horse

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

"Patrick C. Ryan" <proto-language at email.msn.com> wrote:

>From: <JoatSimeon at aol.com>

>> In animal names a derived feminine in *-eha seems to denote a domestic
>> animal (eg., PIE *h(1)ekueha, 'mare') and in *-iha denotes a wild animal.
>> (eg., *ulkwiha, 'she-wolf).  Therefore the original meaning of *markhos was
>> probably specifically a wild horse.

><PR>

>Another point of view. It seems to me that IE *-y and *-H(2)e are both
>established as feminine formants; and I would need several more examples to
>be convinced that females are differentiated by wildness through these
>suffixes.

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

For <ha> read <h2> (or <A>).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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