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I would suggest that *tauro- is a late semitic loanword, while *steuro- is a more nativised and also older.
Suspicious IE roots, possibly deserving our scorn or maybe not 2010
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I find it very hard to believe that *tauro- and *steuro- are unrelated, though their histories would be different.
Suspicious IE roots, possibly deserving our scorn or maybe not 2010
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They reconstruct both *tauro- and a separate root *steuro-.
Suspicious IE roots, possibly deserving our scorn or maybe not 2010
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Ethan Osten had expected me to explain Old English steor because he falsely assumed that all IEists explain it through *tauro- and that I somehow should too.
Suspicious IE roots, possibly deserving our scorn or maybe not 2010
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Regardless of whether *tauro- is genuinely a PIE root or simply younger, it's without a doubt a Semitic loanword.
Suspicious IE roots, possibly deserving our scorn or maybe not 2010
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It seems without discussion that *tauro- is a semitic loanword though.
Suspicious IE roots, possibly deserving our scorn or maybe not 2010
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As soon as I appeared upon the balcony, all the people beneath gathered round and began to cry, Senor! tauro! tauro!
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Voluntati sacrarum intendo scripturarum, vos dissonantiam facitis, verendumque est né aratrum sancta ecclesia, quod in Anglia duo boves validi et pari fortitudine, ad bonum certantes, id est, rex et archepiscopus, debeant trahere nunc ove verula cum tauro indomito jugata, distorqueatur a recto.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Voluntati sacrarum intendo scripturarum, vos dissonantiam facitis, verendúmque est nè aratrum sanctæ ecclesiæ, quod in Anglia duo boves validi et pari fortitudine, ad bonum certantes, id est, rex et archiepiscopus, debeant trahere, nunc ove vetula cum tauro indomito jugata, distorqueatur à recto.
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Ego ovis vetula, qui si quietus essem, verbi Dei lacte, et operimento lanæ, aliquibus possèm fortassis non ingratus esse, sed si me cum hoc tauro coniungitis, videbitis pro disparilitate trahentium, aratrum non rectè procedere, etc.
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