lupo cervino, loup-cervier....

[Rick Mc Callister]

	I remember reading somewhere that English serval, a type of small
wild cat, was from Spanish or Portuguese cerval. Cerval does mean "having
to do with deer". But the servals I've seen at the zoo were smaller than
lynxes

>Hi everyone,
>in a XIV century Italian manuscript I have found this animal, apparently a
>lynx, which would symbolise the ability to judge distances, time, speed...
>(the manuscript is about fighting techniques, BTW). only this animal is
>called lupo cervino, which in italian would mean 'deer-wolf'. At the
>beginning I thought it was for the lynxs fur, spotted like the deer one,
>then a French guy told me that in France they have this loup-cervier, which
>is a big lynx who hunts deers, so I reconsidered my position. They also told
>me in a Spanish name for the lynx being lobo cerval.
>I have to find out which is the truth about all this. do you know something
>about the ancient names for 'lynx' in the IE languages, and about their
>evolution?

>Thank you for your help

>Eleonora Litta

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701