Re: bidet

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:

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> > The Asturian pony was known to Pliny (8:166) as <celdo:>, which has

a variant <thieldo:>,

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> IMHO related to Germanic *talta-z (English <tilt>), thus referring to

'ambling horse', i.e. a horse breed naturally capable of *ambling*, a
gait of horses faster than a walk but slower than a canter or gallop.

>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambling
>

The question of the Asturian horses has been already treated here:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/10934

My own contribution is the etymology of Basque zaldi 'horse'.