Re: Oh, Boii

On Oct 12, 12:49 pm, Trond Engen <trond...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Based on the above etymology I'd say the Bohemians were incredibly
talented salesmen, selling cows as horses to the Romans. This even
explains how hords of barbarians finally were able to beat the armies of
the mighty Roman empire.

A Swiss farmer is training a cow to jump over obstacles like a horse.
I saw it on TV. Looks very funny. By the way: do you have an etymology
of Latin bos bovis? I postulate it comes from a group of similar
words,
PAC 'horse', PEC 'gane', PIC 'bird'. There is a free place for poc bos
bovis. Italian vacca, however, rather indicates PAC. I must give the
names of the Celtic tribes more consideration. The main group,
so far, indicates mining, based on KAL for the Underworld, present
in Keltoi Celts Celtic, in Helvetii (the Celtic tribe that populated
the region of Switzerland), in Gallus Galli. The Celts were miners.
Caesar led his war on Gallia out of several reasons, the main one
was gold. - With the end of the Magdalenian, horses retired eastward,
people followed them. Not improbable that horse breeding had a long
tradition in Bohemia, where the famous Kinsky horse was breeded
in recent times, and horse traders wandering the land might well have
appeared 'bohemian' to those tribes who labored in mines. Just an
ad hoc working thesis of mine.

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