Re: boar

Boris, according to name etymologies and my friends who speak Slavic languages (some of whom are Bóris (Serbian) and others who are Borís (Russian), just means "fierce", which seems to be a Latin-based cognate. Pyotr, am I right on this? You would know more than anyone else.

From: Tavi <oalexandre@...>
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2012 4:55 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: boar

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
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> 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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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'.