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iLynux t1_jbdjtxs wrote

Reply to comment by PtahandSuns in Humans Started Riding Horses 5,000 Years Ago, New Evidence Suggests by Magister_Xehanort

Night is so ubiquitous on Earth that it's no surprise there are thousands of different words for it across cultures and even within language families.

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Rocktopod t1_jbee6yx wrote

That's the opposite point to what the other comment was saying.

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iLynux t1_jbfoa18 wrote

What I meant was, everyone on Earth knew about night, and would've been using language to describe it, regardless of what people thousands of miles away call it. Horses were not everywhere on Earth, and so the first people to encounter and domesticate them kinda got dibs on what they were called.

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