Pour revenir aux chevaux, il est intéressant de voir, que les termes désignant le cheval, la roue et les chars en Sanskrit et en Persan sont tous 'origine indo européenne. Même si le Indusiens ont pu domestiqué un type d'équidé local, c'est apparemment le terme indo européen qui s'est imposé pour le cheval et les technologies qui lui sont associés. J e continue à penser que la civilisation de Sintashta d'Asie centrale constitue le berceau des langues Indo Iraniennes et la culture qui apporta la technologie du char en Inde.
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Root/Stem: *ekwo-
Meanings: a horse
Cognates: Greek hippos (horse) - an example of how *kw > p in Greek
Latin equus (horse)
Common Celtic *ekwos (horse) >
Gaulish epos, eqos, Goidelic *ehwah, Ogham Irish eqa, Old Irish ech, Irish and Scottish Gaelic each, Welsh & Cornish ebol (a colt), Breton ebeul (a colt)
Common Germanic *ihwaz >
Gothic aihwa- (horse), Old English eoh, Old Norse jo'r, Old Saxon ehu-, Old High German eha-
Hieroglyphic Hittite asu, asuwa (horse) - this form made some scientists say that *-k- in *ekwo- was palatal *-k'- that changed into -s- in Anatolian languages;
Lycian esbedi (cavalry)
Tocharic A yuk (a horse), B yakwe
Sanskrit aįva- (horse), Mitanni Aryan asvasanni (a stableman)
Avestan asva- (a horse), Old Persian asa-, Pamir yas', Ossetic jäfs
Thracian esb, esvas (a donkey, a horse),
Phrygian es' (a donkey)
Old Baltic *as'u-, probably >
Lithuanian as'va (a mare), Old Prussian aswinan (mare's milk)
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Root/Stem: *kwel-
Meanings: a wheel, round
Cognates (32): Greek polos (a round axis) - remember *kw becomes Greek p before o, a, u
Latin colere (to cultivate, move around), bucolicus (a cattleman) = bou- (a bull) + col-
Common Celtic *kol- (to move around), bowkolos (a cattleman); >
Old Irish bochaill (a herdsman), Irish & Scottish Gaelic buachaill, Welsh bugail, Cornish & Breton bugel
Sanskrit carati (he moves, wanders)
Avestan c'axra (a chariot, a wagon)
Tocharian kuka"l (a wagon)
Common Germanic *hwel-, >
Old Norse hvel (a wheel), Old English hweol, >
English wheel, Swedish hjul
Common Baltic *kel- (a wheel), >
Old Prussian & Sudovian kelan (a wheel; neut.), Lithuanian kelias (a road, a way)
Common Slavic *kolo (a wheel), >
Ukrainian & Old Russian & Serbo-Croatian & Slovene & Czech & Slovak & Polish & Sorbian kolo, Lower Sorbian kolaso, Russian koleso (a wheel)
- Irish "roth", Welsh "rhod"
- German "Rad"
- Latvian "rats", Lithuanian "ratas"
- Latin "rota"
- Hindi "rathavana" (charioteer)