Bears and why they mostly are called otherwise

[Steve Gustafson]

Richard M. Alderson quoth:

> Is it the basic term for _red_ in Finnish?  Or is there another, so that only
> certain things get labeled _puna_?  (Cf. horse-hide terms in English such as
> _bay_, _dun_, _chestnut_, and so on.)

Interestingly, most of the horse colours in later Latin seem to have been
borrowed from Germanic: blancus, fulvus, griseus, blondus.  These also seem
to have taken root while classical words like -albus-, -spadix-,
and -fuscus- were dropped by the wayside.

--
Hyge sceal thy heardra, heorte thy cenre,
mod sceal thy mare, thy ure maegen lytlath.
                            --- The Battle of Maldon