Fallow Deer/A Closer Look

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In a message dated 5/22/2001 10:34:16 PM, JoatSimeon at aol.com writes:
<< When you consider that PIE-speakers used their *uksen (oxen), under a *yukom
(yoke) to pull their *weghom (waggon) home from the ceremony where they *hwedh
(wed) their brides, it isn't surprising at all.  >>

Nor would it be surprising if bride and groom sat down afterwards and enjoyed
a celebratory dinner of fallow deer, which they would have called *kerwos -
what PIE speakers may have called it in Anatolia.

And it would have been a "gay" affair.  No, not that kind of "gay."  Words
never changed meaning back then, like they do now.  PIEians weren't like the
rest of us humans.

Regards,
SLong