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Re: Animal Sounds like...

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Sunday, November 22, 1998, 5:04
On Sat, 21 Nov 1998 22:25:02 -0500, Sally Caves <scaves@...>
wrote:

>Not too bad... > >The animals that I drew from Indo-European were: > > "horse": ykwa, L. equus, of course, from *ekwo > "fox": fulpa, L. vulpes, from *wlp > "cow/bull": feco, L. pecu, from *peku "money," "cattle" > Bryan's sense that it was "fecal" (flies on poo) > is from L. faec, dregs.
Interesting. I thought it might be related to "vacca".