Once again on the problem of lexical contacts of the North Caucasian, Indo-Iranian and classical languages. Notes in the margins of one publication
The paper deals with the analysis of several Northeast Caucasian (NEC) substrate lexical elements that Sergey V. Kullanda (2012) considers to be borrowed into Indo-Iranian, Latin and Greek through contacts at the period after these Indo-European branches had separated. The East Caucasian languages separated around the 28th century BC. A critical analysis of Kullanda’s views shows that some lexical correspondences are unreliable, e.g. Skr. kéśa- ‘hair’, Avest. gaesa- ‘curly hair’, Lat. caesaries ‘magnificent curls’ and NEC *qasar ‘mane’ instead of qesar.