Reconstruction talk:Proto-Indo-European/bʰébʰrus
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@CodeCat: Could you please check/improve this entry? Thanks! —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 21:27, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
- Or @JohnC5, if you won't respond. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 07:53, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
ESIJa lists a lot of Indo-Iranian brown and yellow animal names, including big felines, as a descendant of this. If that is correct, then the basic meaning of the PIE word is not “beaver” but rather “a brown animal”. --Vahag (talk) 13:56, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
- Well, I think that there are multiple derivations (like PGmc *berô) all coming from a "brown" root, but they seem to be parallel nominalisations to me. Of course, you can add that if you have a good source explicitly stating that reconstructed meaning. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 19:44, 6 March 2016 (UTC)