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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
>
The Old Prussian word wissambras looks like a puzzling cross between
Slavic *zo~brU and (M)Ger. wisant.
>
Animals' names deeply influenced by their Germanic counterparts
indeed do occur in Baltic, Lith. laks^tiñgala 'nightingale' (<
onomatopoeic laks^túoti 'jug' influenced by a Germanic word akin to
ME nightingale, G. Nachtigall etc.) being among the most celebrated
examples.
Sergei