From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 62084
Date: 2008-12-15
> I propose to discuss this meaning: why should "cow" be named somethingIt seems that the original loan, *kar&wa- 'ox' (m.), was a reflex of
> like the "horned"? In opposition to what? Cows are not "more horned"
> than oxen or bulls?
> Maybe in opposition to does? Maybe this name wasThey did have horns. But the Slavs had their own word for the aurochs,
> originally applied to aurochs cows (I don't know if wild cows were
> horned or hornless).