Res: Res: [tied] Reindeer domestication : two origins

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 62082
Date: 2008-12-15

I propose to discuss this meaning: why should "cow"  be named something like the "horned"? In opposition to what? Cows are not "more horned" than oxen or bulls? Maybe in opposition to does? Maybe this name was originally applied to aurochs cows (I don't know if wild cows were horned or hornless).

JS Lopes


De: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
Para: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Enviadas: Segunda-feira, 15 de Dezembro de 2008 18:23:08
Assunto: Re: Res: [tied] Reindeer domestication : two origins

On 2008-12-15 22:10, Rick McCallister wrote:

> and Slavic kurva?

Doesn't fit. By the way, Rasmussen makes a very persuasive case for
Balto-Slavic *ka:rwas 'ox'/*ka:rwa: 'cow' being loans from Proto-Celtic
(*kar&wo- < *k^er&2wo- by so-called Joseph's Law).

Piotr



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