Fallow Deer/A Closer Look

[petegray]

>> dama:r - wife, spouse ...> Wife = domesticated animal... domo, domui,
>> domitum (domtavi) - to tame, to break in
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>>  Cf., Grk, domos - in Homer, often enclosure or abode for animals, e.g.
>> sheepfold (Iliad 12:301); "Sanskrit root, dam-, da:m - ya:mi, to be tame."

Probably there are different roots here.  One of them refers to building,
the other to taming.

damar (short a) genitive damartos is clearly < *dam + rt, as Pokorny says.

Greek domos, Latin domus Sanskrit damas are the "building" root, while Latin
domo and Sanskrit dam- is the taming root.

Peter