"One historical curiosity is some nineteenth-century attempts to relate the word for bear, *h₂ŕ̥tḱos with that for 'white', *h₂ŕ̥ĝ (only possible with some non-discriminatory nineteenth-century reconstructions) and postulate an original PIE *'white (bear)'. This was one of a number of extraordinary arguments for the theory of a polar origin for the Indo-Europeans which here required the reconstruction of *'polar bear (Thalarctos maritimus)'."
D. Q. Adams, J. P. Mallory (1997)
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Forwarded from Αρυολογία☀️ (The Indo-Europeans)
