Bears and why they mostly are called otherwise

[Ante Aikio]

[Steve Long:]
(snip)
> And that may be why bears are mostly called otherwise.  Bearskins.  And the
> word for bearskin may have become one word for brown.
(snip)

There's a similar semantic shift in e.g. Finnish puna 'red color' <
< *'fur' (its cognates mean 'hair', 'fur', 'wool').

 - Ante Aikio