Re: [tied] bison

Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 01:28:05 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
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> Just a wild guess, but perhaps Alex is complaining about the (first)
> vowel in zimbru when we would expect zâmbru out of Slavic zo~brU
> Although zâmbru also exists, at least according to Alex' first
> message
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

yes there are both formes with /i/ and with /â/
and there are several words:
zâmbru/zimbru= bison
zâmbru/zembru= a kind of tree (pinus cembra)
zâmbre= a illness of horses ,cf. DEX= see polish zabrze

By the way cembra, does it has something with the cymber to do? it looks
somehow likely.

Alex