At 07:44 AM 1/2/06 -0800, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: >They are connected through the horse. It is interesting to note that the common Indo-European vocabulary does tend to be heavy in horse-related terms, indicating that the horse was domesticated early in the day before the IE peoples branched out. For the Finno-Uigric languages, though, the common vocabulary is freshwater fishes, indicating a background as a fishing people, a role borne out by their apparent movement along rivers. Marc msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir! NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505 --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list