From: [log in to unmask] (Wei Yu Tan) Date: May 19, 2006 8:01:48 PM EDT To: [log in to unmask] (Pamela K. Crossley) Subject: Re: [SAHALIYAN] is "Tungusic" part of "Altaic" anyway? Reply-To: [log in to unmask] (Wayne is Vain) > > --- You wrote: > Turkic political vocabulary came east for pretty obvious reasons, > but strangely Turkic horse vocabulary didn't. > --- end of quote --- > Hi Professor Crossley I remember Sinor wrote about some of these horse terms and his claims that the Turkic variants did not spread further east because of the Samoyedic/Uralic speakers who formed a barrier. Again, it could be because horses were always essential and these words formed a stratum in the lexicon that was most resistant to change. Interestingly I've read about the Ming dynasty horse trade along the borders and how the Ming officials desired Mongol horses. I wonder if the Central Asian horses are genetically tougher? Maybe so! Best, Wayne