It always seemed strange to me that the bow was not used beyond Iranian borders. I assumed it was due to purely geographical and cultural factors, but then I did some research and came to some rather disconcerting conclusions.The Proto-Indo-Europeans had no words or technology related to archery when they initially expanded, and the peripheral languages of Europe did not develop terms for it. But archery is known to have been practiced across Eurasia since the Early Neolithic, Additionally, the Uralic languages, neighbors of the Indo-Europeans, have words for "bow" and "arrow" in their proto-language. Or maybe The Proto-Indo-Europeans had an archery vocabulary from the very beginning, but many languages lost their inherited terms, leaving only a restricted pattern confined to the Graeco-Aryan region. For some magical reason , In this case, the original vocabulary may still be seen in the Greek and Indo-Iranian isoglosses.
>>18284078Lots of ancient people's invented the bow & arrow independently
>>18284080Did someone say the opposite, you fucking retard? Do you think I said they invented the bow?
>>18284078The first option is outdated; the second is more correct. Besides, in Celtic languages, the word for bow and arrow is a late borrowing from Latin. Western Indo-Europeans hated the bow and arrow.
>>18284087I'm also inclined to accept that. But how and why did this happen? Apparently the same thing happens with the word for spear in PIE. I thought they were crazy warriors?
>>18284089>But how and why did this happen?No clue
>>18284089>Apparently the same thing happens with the word for spear in PIEExplain
>>18284093*kúhx-los can be presumed to be "spear" based on the Sanskrit ≤ùla- "pike, spit, javelin". Other cognates show more diverse meanings, such as "pike, spear, dagger, arrow" in Armenian and "grill" in Middle Persian, and are again*** limited to the same general area as the Graeco-Aryan isogloss. Strange, very strange
>>18284112Idk
>>18284095No. Early aryans and their later descendants knew a number of differentwords for the ‘spearshaft’ (*gwéru, *§kúhxlos), one for ‘spearhead’ (*kel(hx)-) andpossibly one for some casting weapon (*§ghais-ó-)
>>18284219- *gw(i)yèha means "bowstring" or "taut string", found only in the Greek "bios" (bow) and in Indo-Iranian (e.g., Sanskrit "jyà" - bowstring) in the Baltic and Slavic languages, where it simply means "string" and is not associated with weapons. See *h1ísus, which means "arrow", found in the Greek "iós" and in Indo-Iranian (Avestan "i“u-", Sanskrit "íßu-"). Again, only here.
You will never be the true Aryan/Indian, whitoid. We invented the Bow & Arrow.
>>18284508>>18284520>>18284543Sorry guys, I just realized I had the wrong tab open as I was busy going back and forth from other tabs. lmao
>>18284497but you don't look like this you are brown and short and skinnyfat
