piotr.gasiorowski@... wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Annew <annew@w...> wrote:
>
>> Are you sure that 'celer' isn't a horse word? Equuleus is a
> constellation identified with Celeris. "Some mythologists said that
> the constellation represented Celeris, the brother of Pegasus, given
> by Mercury to Castor; or Cyllarus, given to Pollux by Juno" [from
> 'Starnames', Their Lore and Meaning, Richard Hinchley Allen, 1889]
> 'Accelerate', to speed up, as in to win a race, is likely to be a
> horse action
>
> Well, <celer(is)> means 'swift, fast, fleet, lively' etc., and as such
> makes a good "wishing" name for a horse. This doesn't make it a horse
> word
>
>> If you were to accept that 'celer' is a horse word, would you accept
>> that it is related to 'cabalus'? [should be <caballus> -- PG]
>
> It can't be. How exactly would you relate them? Phonologically,
> <caballus> doesn't match <celer> in any way known to me. Semantically,
> the original meaning of <caballus> in Latin was 'pack horse, nag' --
> the very opposite of <celer>
>
> Piotr

Interesting here is that the Greek "keles" meant " horse to be riden"
but not " horse to work with".
In Latin we have some words which point for the word "cal" and not
"caballus":
celeres= corpus equestrum
calo = boy who took care of horses
The German word "Gaul"= old horse, or bad horse is given as with unknown
etymology too.

Question: which is the etymology of "caballus"? Why this "ba" there?
Wherefrom should derives this word?