tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2918951136804113054.post1110962821577653338..comments2023-06-07T11:11:02.474+02:00Comments on Vasco-Caucasian: Semitic *gam(a)l- 'camel'Octavià Alexandrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14569731729402710400noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2918951136804113054.post-69334904105068806022014-10-11T22:03:21.908+02:002014-10-11T22:03:21.908+02:00Actually, the Latin word is a loanword from Gaulis...Actually, the Latin word is a loanword from Gaulish, like other technical terms referring to horses and wheeled vehicles. Originally, it referred to draft horses, not horses in general as in Romance. While it's indeed possible for the Gaulish word to be related to the above Wanderwort, the intermediate languages (to account for the sound changes) can't be identified.<br /><br />However, I can't say the same of the Slavic word you quoted. In fact, there're dozens of 'horse' Wanderwörter which aren't necessarily related.Octavià Alexandrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14569731729402710400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2918951136804113054.post-87479590862339298552014-10-11T20:18:30.527+02:002014-10-11T20:18:30.527+02:00Late Latin caballus "horse" belongs here...Late Latin caballus "horse" belongs here too; it is the source of horse's names in modern Romance languages. Moreover, etymologically dark Slavic *konjь ("horse", known from all modern Slavic lngs) must also be related. The term is believed to be simplified from older *komnjь, cf. Polish komonica = bird's-foot trefoil, Lotus (a plant that - as if - horses like much to eat).<br />The name was a Wanderwort indeed, hence the irregural phonetic correspondences. Besides, the horse played a very important role in the lives of people long time ago, hence its name can have been a subject of irregular simplifications due to frequence (that is why we have -o- -less forms together with those with -o- in Slavic languages, in derived words).Grzegorz Jagodzińskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14871375241459309416noreply@blogger.com