• lugal@sopuli.xyz
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    2 years ago

    Leopard: Lazy Horse (luipaard)

    I’ve looked it up and apparently leo is lion and part is leopard or panther. So it’s a lion leopard. English and Dutch have the same etymology, and German too, all your examples are the same in German.

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      2 years ago

      Are you implying that the word for leopard is compounded from the word for leopard??? How did they get the first word for leopard if they didn’t have a word for leopard???