Re : [tied] Re: rufius = Lynx ?

> --- En date de : Mar 23.9.08, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> a écrit :
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> De: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> Objet: [tied] Re: rufius = Lynx ?
> À: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Mardi 23 Septembre 2008, 6h09
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> --- In cybalist@... s.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@ ...> wrote:
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> > --- In cybalist@... s.com, "Cuadrado" <dicoceltique@ > wrote:
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> > > hello
> > > what about gaulish Rufius = Lynx (pline)
> > > [8,28] 70 Pompei Magni primum ludi ostenderunt chama, quem
> > > Galli rufium uocabant, effigie lupi, pardorum maculis. iidem ex
> > > Aethiopia quas uocant g-kehrous, quarum pedes posteriores
> > > pedibus humanis et cruribus, priores manibus fuere similes. hoc
> > > animal postea Roma non uidit.
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> > Try ... 'Ræv'/'räv' and 'ruvas', that is.
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> Great Pedersen
> I found it !!!!!
> really
> but do you think that word Rufius ( = Lynx) is Gaulish ?
> Ruuius ?

Last time I saw him Pliny assured me it was.
I found the variant raphius
'... ostenderunt chaum, quem Galli raphium vocant'
www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenaref/gesner/gesner1/v1/books/gesnerthesaurus1_3.xml
my browser can't handle it; the text is from the google short summary;
similarly 'rhaphius' here:
http://faculty.njcu.edu/fmoran/vol5lynx.htm
This might be interesting:
http://tinyurl.com/3vel6u

None of the variants occur in Ernout-Meillet.


Torsten