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Here? https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=44941 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=44941 In Indoeuropean it's only present in the Germanic and Celti

Here? https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=44941 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=44941 In Indoeuropean it's only present in the Germanic and Celtic branches (Protogermanic: marhaz, Protoceltic: markos), but in the Far East, as well as Chinese 馬 (mǎ) there's Mongolian морь, Korean 말 (mal), and Japanese うま (uma). I can't find any Finno-Ugric or Turkic cognates, so it looks like there are two separate clusters.

riialist 4y ago
In Finnish we still use word "mesi", which is a synonym for honey. The word has the same meaning in Finno-ugric and Uralian languages still spoken in Siberia and Volga areas such as Mari and Udmurt - and Hungarian. At least the Finnish etymologic dictionary says it's related to Aryan words, e.g. medhu in Sanskrit. https://kaino.kotus.fi/suomenetymologinensanakirja/?p=qs-article&etym_id=ETYM_1392fa65931ea44df2062a1bf167859e&list_id=1&keyword=mesi&word=mesi https://kaino.kotus.fi/suomenetymologinensanakirja/?p=qs-art...