Reconstruction talk:Proto-Indo-European/h₁éḱwos

ašpa or aspa?
Isn't the spelling of Avestan descendant aspa? And what do these four squares spell: ? --Vahagn Petrosyan 04:21, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

u-stem
Remember how w:Kikkuli calls himself aššuššanni in archaic Indo-Aryan? Bang, there goes another trait purportedly unique to Anatolian ... :-P --Florian Blaschke (talk) 21:11, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
 * And the IE "innovation" is pure circulation of Kloehorst's fixation on Indo-Hittite.2A02:8108:9640:AC3:E596:AFB4:CED6:1189 08:40, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

Nostratic
Should the nostratic hypothesis really be featured so prominently? It is still rather controversial. Wakuran (talk) 14:59, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

The dog theory
I wonder if its possible this is cognate to the word for dog, since horses may have superficially resembled dogs to a human seeing them for the first time. I think some other languages have done this. Someone introduced me to this theory but I've lost contact with them and don't know if it was in a traditional academic journal. So long as we are mentioning theories i think it is good to mention all of them, at least those that are published in linguistic journals. It seems Lakota has šúŋka for dog and šúŋkawakȟáŋ for horse; the two are merged to the dog root in some fixed expressions (e.g. "on horseback") where it is not necessary to distinguish. Soap (talk) 18:11, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

Mongolian connection
Where are the Mongolian cognates? I went to history tab and I could not find anything... help :) 16 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Mongolian isn't an Indo-European language, so it's not listed. —Rua (mew) 20:39, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Ok, I found the Mongolpean cognates now. We have aɣsur- ("to storm, to fly into a rage, to beviolent or furious; to be fiery"), aɣsum ("fury, rage, madness; furious, fiery, violent, tempestuous, spirited"), and last but not least aɣsum mori ("fiery or spirited horse"). I share the link with you https://archive.org/details/BomhardProtoIndoEuropeanHorse/page/n1