Re: tawros

From: S.Kalyanaraman
Message: 29003
Date: 2004-01-02

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Davius Sanctex"
<gruposdavius@...> wrote:
> proto-semitic: *thawr- 'bull' [arabic thawru, hebrew sho:r, aramic
tawr, ...]> proto-IE: *tawros / *tarwos 'bull'
>
> Do you know the form for 'bull' in other languages families from
Anatolia, Caucasus, Elam, ...?

damr.a m. a steer; damr.i a heifer f.; damkom a bull calf
(Santali.lex.)

vr.s.an bull; stallion (RV. i.140.6; RV. i.176.2); vr.s.abha bull
(RV. i.116.18); manly RV. iii.38.7); bhadra = bull, ox (Skt.)

dangrako chalawakoa = they put panniers on bullocks; chala badla a
pack bullock (Santali) d.an:gra = bull (Mundarica)d.an:gur bullock
(K.)adar d.an:gra = zebu (Santali)

dhavala an old bull, an excellent ox (Ka.); dhavale a white cow
(Skt.Ka.)stho_ra beast of burden (BHSkt.); stho_rin, sthaurin pack-
horse (Skt.); stwr horse (Pahl.); stora horse (NiDoc.); storavara
horseman (NiDoc.); isto_r horse (Kho.); tu_ri pack bullock (W.);
tu_riyam < dhurya pack bullock (Pin..) (Ta.lex.)
http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/Indian%20Lexicon/bull.htm