Re: Ossetic fox

From: Gordon Barlow
Message: 47193
Date: 2007-01-30

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But ruvas, raev, etc are perfectly compatible with dialectal variants of English wo(l)f, pronounced woof.  With respect, the idea of calling an animal after a vegetable because of its tail is not plausible.  So I suggest any relationship with radishes is unlikely.
 
Gordon Barlow
 
Posted by: "Rick McCallister" gabaroo6958@...   gabaroo6958
 
Interesting --I believe Old Spanish was raposa, rapaz but this, I think is somehow related to words for roots such as rábano ¨radish¨¨, etc. because of the tail. What is the etymology of the words below?

tgpedersen <tgpedersen@... com> wrote:

Ossetic ruvas "fox"
Danish ræv, Sw räv etc "fox"
Proto-Finno- Ugric *repä-c´ "fox"