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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Annew <annew@...> wrote:
> Are you sure that 'celer' isn't a horse word? Equuleus is a
constellation identified with Celeris. "Some mythologists said that
the constellation represented Celeris, the brother of Pegasus, given
by Mercury to Castor; or Cyllarus, given to Pollux by Juno" [from
'Starnames', Their Lore and Meaning, Richard Hinchley Allen, 1889]
'Accelerate', to speed up, as in to win a race, is likely to be a horse
action.
Well, <celer(is)> means 'swift, fast, fleet, lively' etc., and as such
makes a good "wishing" name for a horse. This doesn't make it a horse
word.
> If you were to accept that 'celer' is a horse word, would you accept
> that it is related to 'cabalus'? [should be <caballus> -- PG]
It can't be. How exactly would you relate them? Phonologically,
<caballus> doesn't match <celer> in any way known to me. Semantically,
the original meaning of <caballus> in Latin was 'pack horse, nag' --
the very opposite of <celer>.
Piotr