Translating Getica (cerva)

[llama_nom]

A couple more possibilities:

Go. *hinda F -o, or *hindo F -on (OE hind, ON hind; OLG *hinda (MDu.,
Du. hinde), OHG hinta (MHG, Ger. hinde), wk. fem.  The OED says "some
suggest derivation from Goth. hinþan to catch; others would connect it
with Gr. KEMAS young deer, pricket."

Go. ?*dámo F -on (masc. ?*dáma M -an).  But the exact connection
between English and North Germanic, on the one hand, and German on the
other is unclear.

Under 'doe', the OED has:

"OE. dá is thought by some to be a contracted form, cognate with OHG.
tâmo, dâmo wk. masc., MHG. tâme, G. dam- (in damhirsch, damwild), a.
L. dáma, damma f., sometimes m., fallow deer, buck, doe; but there are
serious difficulties. See Pogatscher Gr. Lat. u. Rom. Lehnworte im
Altengl. §302."

Grimm, under Damhirsch, mentions "althd. tâmo und tâm GRAFF 5, 422,
mhd. tâme, tâmel; ags. dâ; dän. daa, daahjort, [...] ital. daino,
daina; franz. daim, daine".

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