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I continue to reject the validity of both *kapro- 'goat' and *kapr̥- 'penis' as true Indo-European IE roots.
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In Pokorny's work, perhaps we see the beginning of the telephone game where **kapro- is used to explain both 'penis' and 'goat'.
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Maybe this is really an Etruscan word that was exported to surrounding IE languages of Western Europe and just maybe there is no such stem *kapro- or penis-based animal terms here at all.
Manly goats 2010
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I continue to reject the validity of both *kapro- 'goat' and *kapr̥- 'penis' as true Indo-European IE roots.
Archive 2010-09-01 2010
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