The issue of a PIE-stage domesticated horse
The article examines the lexical items in relationship with horses in the Indo-European
languages.
It is shown that these words do not fit the regular phonetic correspondences of
the Indo-European languages....
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The issue of a PIE-stage domesticated horse
The article examines the lexical items in relationship with horses in the Indo-European
languages.
It is shown that these words do not fit the regular phonetic correspondences of
the Indo-European languages.
They have limited extension within the family and most of
them can be traced back to Altaic languages.
The conclusion is that the Proto-IndoEuropean language split much earlier than the domestication of horses.
Introduction
Horses play a particular role in the historiography of IE studies and in the dating of PIE.
A lot
could be said from a psychoanalytical point of view about this (noble?) animal with obvious
phallic features in its relationship with Indo-Europeanists themselves.
And a little could be
incidentally added about its relationship with PIE-speakers in their touted expansion
throughout the world.
But in the article I will deal as much as possible with basic facts: lexical
and phonetic facts.
After two centuries of scie
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