Re: Animal Sounds like...
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 22, 1998, 5:04 |
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On Sat, 21 Nov 1998 22:25:02 -0500, Sally Caves <scaves@...>
wrote:
>Not too bad...
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>The animals that I drew from Indo-European were:
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> "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".