Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Northern Caucasian

ebeul, Old Cornish ebol; archaic Goidelic-Old Irish (in Ogam inscriptions) ECCEGNI
(cf. the later mythological name Echen), diminuitive of *eqas “horse” > ech; EQQODI,
EQQOD “usually dealing with horses” 272 ; Old Irish ech (with the normal disappearance
of the labial feature 273 * w typologically similar to delabialization in Latin ecus < equos).
The magical role of the horse is particularly clear in this area as well as in Roman
tradition and in Germanic. Here the common features of these Western dialects and of
Indo-Iranian may be seen as marginal archaisms preserved in the extremities (Western
and Eastern) of the Indo-European world. Thus the Mesopotamian Aryan, Vedic and
Avestan proper names and expressions continuing the combination of a term for a
horse with the stem *prî- (see 1. I A above) correspond to a composite proper name in
which its synonym combines with the same stem: Old English Frid-h2ngest. 274
2. X. Eastern Indo-European. Greek.
Mycenaean Greek i-qo (with the variant i-po- in the compound i-po-qo-qo = later
Greek flppo-forbÒw “horse-breeder” 275 ) and later alphabetically written ·ppow with
a dialectal variant ‡kkow and a corresponding proper name ÖIkkow (showing later
271 Pisani 1959, 166, n.2 with references.
272 Pokorny 1948-1949, 57; Korolev 1984, 153.
273 Thurneysen 1946, 124, §203d.
274 Gamkrelidze and Ivanov 1984/1995, 472, with references.
275 Explained by regressive dissimilation:*kw…*g w : Lejeune 1972, 47, n. §33-3; Panagl 1985, 286; cf.
Mycenaean poqewija = forbe¤a “halter” and possibly poqa = forbÆ “forage, fodder”, Chantraine
1990, 1187-1188.