Re: Old Dutch words

Hmmmmmm . . . .
In Russian it s also "slon" ????, and in all other
slavic languages it is the same. So this is common
slavic word. Etymology can be explained in such way
(http://vasmer.narod.ru/p646.htm):
Slavic people watched the animal and called it
according to its behaviour:
common slavic word prisloniti (to lean against)
describes how elephant sleeps, it leans against trees
while sleeping.
But some scietists suppose that Slavic tribes didnt
have much opportunity to watch the exotic animal, so
the origin of the word possibly is unknown.


--- ualarauans <ualarauans@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
> <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:
> >
> > it reads : olifant = slan
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Piotr Gasiorowski
> > To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:07 PM
> > Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Re:
> Old Dutch words
> >
> >
> > On 2008-01-15 19:58, fournet.arnaud wrote:
> >
> > > Another word means "elephant" !!
> > > It is worse.
> >
> > What is that 'elephant' word?
>
> It's much better. It's Russian slon, probably <
> Turkic a[r]slan
>
>

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