The animals of the Proto-Indo-Europeans

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15th-17th century hunting armour for hounds

@AbhiramAmp Sorry but perhaps you should open a Vedic grammar before wrongfully criticizing a correct statement

@PIE_Animals Sorry but Vedic Sanskrit does not use any forms of Ves for bird. (Vayas) is a crow and that too rarely used it's Káka: for crow.

BIRD IN INDO-EUROPEAN 🐦 Latin avis Vedic Sanskrit véṣ, víṣ, acc. vím, gen. véṣ, pl. váyas Avestan vīš, pl. vaiiō Middle Persian w’d /way/ Umbrian avi- Armenian haw Ancient Greek αἰετός, ἀετός (aietós, aetós) 'eagle' οἰωνός (oiōnós) 'large bird' Albanian vito 'pigeon'

suffering, euphoria, and ferret all come from the same root word

Most mosaics in Ravenna are heavily stylized with generic faces and large almond eyes, but Justinian's portrait is unusually individualistic, you can see unflattering flabby cheeks and a weary, mature expression that feels like a somewhat accurate likeness of a middle aged man.

A swimming Feather Star, also known as a crinoid. These ancient creatures date back to the Ordovician period, around 480 million years ago

"On" one of these dots would surprise me...

@avzaagzonunaada Isn't it ironic that the joke contains the word "ophthalmologist"?

@ChronHib ἐδάκρυσεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἀπὸ τοῦ γέλωτος 😂

@PIE_Animals This is a case for: John 11:35.

The award for the dumbest comment goes to this gentleman:

@nihilismisok For Anatolian, an eastern route makes more sense.

@PIE_Animals What do you think?

Not sure that it is entirely correct, but it's a fascinating visualization.

@nihilismisok 😝 I hoped so

@PIE_Animals I swear i am just doing sarcasm here.

Convincing argument! 🤡

@mclo_Bridger Interesting! It would be an interesting topic to look at, where those cattle calls come from. My dad is from a small farm in Austria and they also used weird words to call them.

@PIE_Animals I meant, they called them that, when they were calling them in

COW IN INDO-EUROPEAN 🐮 Proto-Germanic *kūz Old English cū Old Norse kýr Swedish ko German Kuh Tocharian A ko, B keu Armenian kov Ancient Greek βοῦς (boũs) Latin bōs Old Irish bó Welsh bu Luwian wawa/iš Vedic Sanskrit gáuṣ Hindi gāy Avestan gāuš Kurdish ga Latvian govs

@TomoFflandrys Yes, dw i'n gwybod, but I always list the direct cognates, even if the words have become obsolete 🤗

@PIE_Animals Buwch is the normal Welsh word 😊 Bu is all but obsolete.

@mclo_Bridger In which country?

@PIE_Animals the farmers in my family often called the cattle ' bos'

The 600 year evolution from Ancient Greek sculptures

Were a humble lot

A 15th-century medieval illustration of a crocodile.