Re:Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016)
by 0ld on Monday May 28, 2018 @07:14AM
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The non-related words for ox, cow and beef.
I can confirm the same at least in Czech, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian. But not in, say, Polish (where 'beef' has its root from 'ox')
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In russian (and most likely some other slavic langauges) beef ("говядина") is meat of any cattle because it comes from anchient-russian "говядо" which literally means "cattle".
Pretty much same for ox - from the old form of "big" "великий" - big animal.
Cow "корова" most likely comes from protoslavic korva and most likely inherited from ancient-indian "carvati" - "chewing".