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From: aa318@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (John Coughlin)
Subject: Re: Tarvas (was Animal names?)
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In a previous posting, Jorma Kyppo (jorma@jytko.jyu.fi) writes:
> ronkanen@cc.Helsinki.FI (Osmo Ronkanen) wrote:
> 
>> But moose is a Finnish animal, it must have had some Finnish name
>> before. 
> 
> One ancient Finnish name for moose ("hirvi" in Finnish) is "tarvas".
> Here we can get a lot of interesting connections.
> 
> 1. "Tarvas" is same origin like the hungarian name for deer "czarvas".
>    The Hungarian name for horn (and antler) is "czarv", which is
>    almost same like the corresponding Finnish "sarvi".
> 
   cf. the French "cerf" (deer) and "chevre" (goat).  Along with moose
       these are all herbivores.  Does this tell us anything ?
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