Horses

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

Sean Crist <kurisuto at unagi.cis.upenn.edu> wrote:

>A few months ago, I made a post to the list in which I stated that the PIE
>word *ekwos "horse" is not probative in the question of the PIE homeland,
>since one need not have domesticated the horse to have a word for it.

>I want to retract that post.  Beekes (1995) reports that horses (wild or
>domesticated) were not found in Anatolia in the period which Renfrew
>claims for the final IE unity, and Ringe (personal communication) has
>corroborated this claim.  This is an important incongruity between the
>firmly reconstructed IE vocabulary and the homeland which Renfrew posits;
>it is a strong argument against Renfrew.

But Armenian eys^ (< *ek^wos) means "donkey".

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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