Re: Horse words.

From: Dennis King
Message: 3814
Date: 2000-09-18

> what has capercailzie (a large European species of grouse)
> got to do with horses, etymologically?

Scottish Gaelic 'capall coille' = horse of (the) woods

Name a bird, more common than the capercaillie, whose
English name has a probable Brythonic origin. (There
are at least two.)

Dennis King