Horses

Ante Aikio anaikio at mail.student.oulu.fi
Sat Feb 12 10:01:22 UTC 2000


> [Ed]
> Note that in Basque, 'zezen' means 'bull'. At least it has four legs ;-)

> Coincidence? Another loan cum semantic shift? Or did these words originally
> mean 'big four-legged domesticated animal' or 'head of cattle' or something
> of that kind?

> Ed. Selleslagh

For parallels, there's Finnish lehmä 'cow' = Mordvin l'iSme 'horse'.

- Ante Aikio



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