Re: [tied] Wolf, varg

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Peter P" <roskis@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Peter P" <roskis@...> wrote:
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> > Perhaps interestingly, Finnish borrows 'voros' (criminal, thief)

from

> > Slavic and 'varas' sing. 'varkaat' plur. (thief) from Germanic.
> >
> > Peter P
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> Another typo 'voro' (criminal...)

OK. So Germanic has a word that means "wolf" and also
metaphorically "criminal", which metaphorical sense it also has in
Slavic and Finnish, which is similar to a word which means "wolf" in
Iranian languages. I am glad that I know that there was no contact
between those languages and Iranian, because then I'd be confused and
tend to believe it was a loan.


Torsten