From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 70865
Date: 2013-02-01
probably the kentauros and kantaros are related to each other.... their phonetic appearance are striking appropriate and the meaning ..... well I would say there is something common in both since the mythological kentauros has been a mix of human with horse and the kantaros is a mix of donkey with horse, thus the common part is the horse, maybe there should be something to look for:)
So far I know the word is present in Turkish and Romanian but they are for sure borrowing from New Greek ( see tc katir, rom. catâr)
Alex