Fallow Deer

[Rick Mc Callister]

	There were tigers in the Caspian region until about 100 years ago.
How far to the north and west did they live in earlier times?

>It also reinforces the point that the PIE vocabulary lacks terms for the
>fauna specific to the southern and middle "tier" of Eurasia -- the
>mediterranean zone, Asia Minor, Iran, the Levant.

>It _does_ have a fairly complete vocabulary for the _northern_ part of
>Eurasia; the zone that stretches from the middle Urals into eastern Europe.
>Bears, wolves, aurochs, red deer, elk, etc., yes;  lions, leopards,
>tigers, chamois, fallow deer, no.

>When you combine this with the existance of specifically PIE loans in
>proto-Finno-Ugrian, which by pretty well universal consent had an urheimat
>in the central and northern Urals...

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701