From: Mate Kapovic
Message: 35896
Date: 2005-01-15
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From: "altamix" <alxmoeller@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 2:00 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Latin ibex akin to Portuguese bezerro?
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao" <josimo70@...> wrote:
> In a nice book about Portuguese etymology I've just bought, there's
a chapter about Pre-Roman Iberian words. Its stated that Portuguese
bezerro "calf" < Pre-Roman *ibik/irru, same root as Latin ibex, both
from a Pre-Roman root *ibik-, meaning "kid". Is it plausible?
>
>
> Joao SL
>there is Rom. "bâk" ( < bik ?) which means "ox". Apparently it fits
>with *ibik you mean here phoneticaly & semanticaly.
The Romanian word is a loanword from Slavic (cf. for instance Croatian bik,
bak "ox").
Mate