From: dgkilday57
Message: 70215
Date: 2012-10-18
>No mention of the Berber word. If Bq. oilo 'chicken' comes from *boilo < pollo with "regular loss of /b/ before /o/" (presumably used to explain on 'good' from Romance bono), why is there Bq. borondate from Lat. (acc.) volunta:tem? I prefer to consider on 'good' ancient, and gizon 'man' (against giza-), which occurs in Aquitanian onomastics, to be originally 'good man, bonhomme'.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@> wrote:
> >
> > > The Asturian pony was known to Pliny (8:166) as <celdo:>, which has
> a variant <thieldo:>,
> >
> > 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