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From: hidas@dxcern.cern.ch (Pal Hidas)
Subject: Re: Animal names?
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The lion in Hungarian is "oroszlan" which comes from old Turkish, probably
from the time when our ancestors lived in Central Asia together with Turkish
peoples (and we were mixed up with them). Lions lived in Iran and Central
Asia that time. I guess the name "oroszlan" is in connection with the Turkish
names Ruslan,Arslan (?).

Pal Hidas, CERN-PPE
