"The lack of a clear Proto-Indo-European word for 'donkey‘, given the presence of domesticated donkeys throughout most of the territory where horses were domesticated and where the Indo-European tribes must have lived, can be explained by assuming that *ekhwos was originally used with the meaning 'donkey‘ as well as 'wild horse; horse‘. ...[the PIE speakers lived in] Central and Eastern Asia, where paleozoological data show that the domesticated donkey is a recent introduction."
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Gamkrelidze, Thomas V. and Ivanov, V.V. Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans: A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and a Proto-Culture. Mouton de Gruyter, 1995, Berlin, New York., quoted in Talageri, The Rigveda and the Avesta
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Vyacheslav Ivanov (philologist)
Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (Russian: Вячесла́в Все́володович Ива́нов [ɪˈvanəf], 21 August 1929 – 7 October 2017) was a prominent Soviet/Russian philologist, semiotician and Indo-Europeanist probably best known for his glottalic theory of Indo-European consonantism and for placing the Indo-European urheimat in the area of the Armenian Highlands and Lake Urmia.
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