From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 49676
Date: 2007-08-27
French corbeau "crow" versus Latin "corvus"
Never attested with -v- in Old French.
French Brebis "ewe" < Roman *berbex versus Latin vervex
Never attested with -v- in Old French.
French Courbe "curved" versus Latin curvus
Never attested with -v- in Old French.
Ibex mountain sheep/goat versus Latin ovis < H2_w "sheep"
Supposed to be a loanword from an undetermined language spoken in the Alps.
Gabe, gave "Pyrenees torrent" < *gh_w "flow, gush forth"
Bearn dialect word attested since 1671.
Late Latin galbus "yellow-greenish" versus Latin helvus < *ghel-s-wos
Said to be "Gaulish" by Meillet.
Late Latin gabata "plate" versus Greek gaulos
Greek may be a Semitic loanword (but may also not be)
Gamba < *genwa "leg" versus Latin genu "knee".
Supposed to be from Greek kampĂȘ "curve".
Meillet considers that Gaulish origin is unproved.
Bal(l) "danse" versus German Waltz < *wel "turn around"
Derivation from Greek ballizein "shoot a projectile" sounds hardly believable.
What do you think ?