Ut hirpus satietur hircusque integer seruetur

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BLAŽEK Václav MACHAJDÍKOVÁ Barbora

Year of publication 2012
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Graeco-Latina Brunensia
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web Digitální knihovna FF MU
Field Linguistics
Keywords Indo-European; Italic; Latin; etymology; (h)irpus; (h)ircus
Description In the article a new solution of the old etymological puzzle is offered: to explain the relation between Latin hircus "stag" and Sabellian hirpus "wolf". A new etymology is based on assumtion of relation between "prey" and "predator", i.e. "wolf" = "that who hunts stags".
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