A. Richard Diebold Jr.

Albert Richard Diebold Jr. (January 20, 1934 - 1 March 2014) was an American linguistic anthropologist who was Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. He specialized in Indo-European studies. Quotes IE linguistics can agree on the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European etyma "ekwos 'horse'. . . . But let us note [that] the animal terms tell us, in and of themselves, nothing about the cultural uses of those animals or even whether they were domesticated; but only that Proto- Indo-European speakers knew of some kind of horse . . . although not which equid. . . . The fact that the equid *ekwos was the domesticated Equus cabailus spp. Linnaeus . . . come[s] not from etymology but rather from archaeology and paleontology. The most we can do with these prehistoric etyma and their reconstructed proto-meanings, without archaeological and paleontological evidence (which does indeed implicate domestication), is to aver a Proto-Indo-European familiarity with these beasts. Diebold (1987) (53-54) in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. Diebold, Richard A., Jr. 1987. "Linguistic Ways to Prehistory." In Proto-Indo-European: The Archaeology of a Linguistic Problem (19-71). Ed. Susan Skomal and Edgar Polome. Washington, D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man. External links Category:1934 births Category:2014 deaths Category:Anthropologists from the United States Category:Harvard University faculty Category:Linguists from the United States Category:People from New York City Category:Stanford University faculty Category:Yale University alumni