Afterwards remembered that a young tree is a "sapling".
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Which language came first? These similar words meaning bull/ox/cow/cattle/herd or similar in different languages:
guanil (Guanche/Azores), gnu (South African), bo (Celtic/Irish), cow/kine/bovine (English), kuh (German), bo(vi)s/buffalo (Latin/Roman), bo(u)s (Greek), gu/ku (Minoan/Cretan), ka(ui) "bull" (Egyptian), goy(im) (Hebrew/Jewish), kujata (Moslem/Arab), gu(d) (Sumerian), gosh/geus (Iranian/Persian), go/gauh/gomeda (Hindu/Indian/Dravidian), *gaw (Proto-Indo-European/Aryan), kan-iyal/kana (Dravidian/Tamil), koyunlu (Turkish), kahui (Maori/Polynesian).
(A couple/few might be wrong and not cognate, though they might be right/cognate.)
Different words for "ox/bull/cow" in various languages include: aleph/alpha (ebrew/Greek), ama "wild ox", aurochs, bo (Irish), bos/bous/bovis/bovine (Greek/Roman), bull(ock), buffalo, bison, bakar (Hebrew), beef, cow, cattle, calf, dairy, fehu/feudal (Norse), go (Indian), gud (Sumerian), goad, heifer, kuh (German), ka(ui) (Egypt), kine, lu(p) (Chaldee/Chinese), moo, moschel (Slav), neat, ox(en), pas(h)u (India), reem/rimu (Hebrew/Assyrian), steer, taurus/toro (Greek), tatanka (Amerind), thur/thor/tor/shur/shor (Hebrew/Phoenician/Chaldean), uruz/urus (Norse), vaccine, viteli (Italic), yak (Tocharian).
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Also found an interesting article on Hebrew animals words/names here https://isaacmozeson.blogspot.com/2018/09/hebrew-animal-names.html
Edited by Arthur-Robin - 04-Nov-2018 at 01:53
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