Ut hirpus satietur hircusque integer seruetur

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Authors	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".
Related projects:	Indo-European Linguistic Interference in Central Asia and China