What’s next, putting wheels behind them or something?
Not often that you see a meme with PIE. Bravo.
W-what are you doing steppe nomad?
What did you say that thing is? A *kʷekʷlo ? Stupid invention, it’ll never catch on.
Hey, you’re insulting the precursor of the revered kekw, back before kekw and lol were two separate words
I need an explanation this one
Domestication of the horse had massive impacts on human civilization
Horse civilization also had some crazy memes when humans first started riding them.
Ahhhhh, horse
The Yamnaya, the common ancestors of European, Hindi and Farsi speaking populations, are probably the first group to ride horses. This super charges pastoralism and transformed the steppe, warfare and Eurasian genetics. Their descendents developed the spoked wheel.
The funny looking words are reconstructed proto-indo-european terms -
*koryos is a kind of ritual teenaged war band that ate their own dogs and lived in the wilderness before becoming full citizens.
*h1ekwos means horse, think ‘equestrian’ from the Latin ‘equus’. The ‘h1’ means it’s one of three h-like sounds that we can’t reconstruct exactly but know existed.
Ah, neat. Thank you
I bet my Proto-Indo-European ancestors are disappointed in me for not getting the joke.
You “jumped on a *h:ekwos”
In what manner?
There are consequences for human civilization either way.
What are these “wheels”?
Some fad. They’re all the rage in Mesopotamia.
That sounds like a good place to invade, let’s go.
Hekwos?
In Finnish modern horse is “hevonen”
Not far, imo.
