What’s next, putting wheels behind them or something?
What did you say that thing is? A *kʷekʷlo ? Stupid invention, it’ll never catch on.
Not often that you see a meme with PIE. Bravo.
I need an explanation this one
Domestication of the horse had massive impacts on human civilization
Horse civilization also had some crazy memes when humans first started riding them.
Ahhhhh, horse
The Yamnaya, the common ancestors of European, Hindi and Farsi speaking populations, are probably the first group to ride horses. This super charges pastoralism and transformed the steppe, warfare and Eurasian genetics. Their descendents developed the spoked wheel.
The funny looking words are reconstructed proto-indo-european terms -
*koryos is a kind of ritual teenaged war band that ate their own dogs and lived in the wilderness before becoming full citizens.
*h1ekwos means horse, think ‘equestrian’ from the Latin ‘equus’. The ‘h1’ means it’s one of three h-like sounds that we can’t reconstruct exactly but know existed.
What are these “wheels”?
Some fad. They’re all the rage in Mesopotamia.
That sounds like a good place to invade, let’s go.
You “jumped on a *h:ekwos”
In what manner?
There are consequences for human civilization either way.