Re: e: [tied] Re: Finnish KASKA

Compare it to the badger/blaireau --it also has a
prominent patch of white and is also named for that
feature
Are you putting badger rights above the rights of the
humble izard?


--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
> Dialectal French
> >isard = mountain goat, chamois
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> This is a Pyrenean word (Cat. isard, Gasc. izar(t),
> Arag.
> sarrio), most likely connected with Basque izarr
> "star"
> (also "white spot on the forehead", "centro por
> donde parte
> el pelo").
> Miguel
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> I cannot see the point of a word meaning "star"
> when we have words that mean "goat".
> Un détour inutile.
> Arnaud
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> The word "chamois", Sp. gamuza, Lat. camo:x is given
> in
> Pokorny as derived from an Alpine substrate word
> *kamo:sso-
> (< PIE *k^am-ont-?). The Basque word for "goat"
> <ahuntz> (<
> *anuns) appears to be an ancient borrowing from
> Indo-European: *kamo(:)nts > *anuns > ahuntz, with
> regular
> *k- > 0-, *-m- > -n-, as in native words.
> Miguel
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> This word too is interesting.
> I suggest Touareg H_m "antilope"
> as the ground-form
> Basque is direct from Ham > *an-
> Camoks is a latinized form of Hamoks.
>
> Arnaud
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