From: g
Message: 22051
Date: 2003-05-17
>Re: the etymology of `koira'. The Hungarian cognate is `here'.Now that's funny: Romanian "coi" [koj] means what Hungarian
>The original meaning was `male animal, bull', Finnish `härkä' = bull.
>Some suggest that it could come from *kojra <*koj a particle
>meaning `man' in PU. - Häkkinen
>Pete PGeorge