Re: [tied] Artemis and the Bear (long)

That just happens sometimes - all the late Brythonic dialects lost their
native word for "fish" (Brythonic *eisco-), replacing it with derivatives
from the Latin Piscus
-C. Gwinn

> > On the other periphery of IE, Basque borrowed <hartz> "bear" from
> > Celtic *artos.
>
> I agree it's sure that hartz < artos. But why would the Basques borrow

this

> word from Celtic if the bear exists in Spain. Any taboo? Was there any

other

> Basque word (native) for "bear"?
>