Re: [tied] caballus, couple

From: tgpedersen
Message: 37968
Date: 2005-05-20

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Petusek" <petusek@...> wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> (according to E & M) of that term appear in Celtic, Slavic
> ('kopyla') and Germanic (German 'Kop').
> It's 'kobyla' in Slavic.
>
> What about terms like Latin kabo:, gen. kabo:nis 'Wallach' or
kabo:nus, (gl) m. kabo:ni:
capon (German Kapaun) ?

>and Gaul caballos (loan?<Lat?) /OIr, Ir capall
>

And Lithuanian kumele "mare". All this from Latin or Celtic?


Torsten