From: Tavi
Message: 68839
Date: 2012-03-08
>I disagree. To begin with, IE *-pr- gives regularly Celtic *-br-. Secondly, the Germanic word 'boar' is *baira-z and it's unrelated to the other ones. And thirdly, the name Boris designates a different animal, either 'wolf' or 'snow leopard'.
> Or, more likely, *gabhr- and *kapr- are two different roots that got confused --i.e. *gabhr < ghwV- and related to the Latin root of feral, to English boar and to the Russian name Boris --there may metathesis involved ghwV-bh-r /ghwV-r-bh
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