Did you know that proto Indo-Europeans were so afraid of bears that they forgot what they were even called? The true name of bears was a taboo, they believed that if you said the real name out loud they would hear you and come over. So instead they came up

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Scob H7^yTpWg 05/07/26 (Thu) 13:24:14 №3346576 [Quote]

Did you know that proto Indo-Europeans were so afraid of bears that they forgot what they were even called? The true name of bears was a taboo, they believed that if you said the real name out loud they would hear you and come over. So instead they came up with euphemisms:
>Germanic languages
They are called "the brown ones". Yes, the words "bear" and "brown" are the same word that split apart a long time ago.
>Slavic languages
They are called "honey eaters". In Russian is "Medved"; honey eater would be "Medoed".
>Romance languages
They are called "the destroyers" - "Ursus", from the PIE root *hrtkos.

Their real name, as I mentioned above, has been lost to time.

Chud H7^yTpWg 05/07/26 (Thu) 13:37:30 №3346609 [Quote]

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snca bump

Chud XrGlArpJ [VPN] 05/07/26 (Thu) 13:37:44 №3346613 [Quote]

geg germanicsissies what is this? another win for anglo-saxons

Baroobkek!!Vl7TbG4MyE UMT8OSjZ [VPN] 05/07/26 (Thu) 13:40:03 №3346622 [Quote]

Very interesting

Chud Kbn909ho 05/07/26 (Thu) 13:41:48 №3346628 [Quote]

>>3346576 (OP)
>ANFgroids dont even fear bears
KEK! JSID!

Chud HnzSjbUf 05/07/26 (Thu) 13:42:45 №3346631 [Quote]

The Bear fears me. I am the apex predator.

Scob H7^yTpWg 05/07/26 (Thu) 13:45:01 №3346640 [Quote]

>>3346628
In Baltic languages the bear is called "the trampler"

Scob Kbn909ho 05/07/26 (Thu) 13:46:41 №3346644 [Quote]

>>3346640
Meska or lokys? Pretty sure the former means hairy/shaggy and latter means roarer

Scob H7^yTpWg 05/07/26 (Thu) 13:47:00 №3346646 [Quote]

>>3346644
Lokys

Scob H7^yTpWg 05/07/26 (Thu) 13:48:05 №3346653 [Quote]

>>3346644
It's just a theory doe, we don't know for sure what the original word meant

Scob Kbn909ho 05/07/26 (Thu) 13:48:19 №3346656 [Quote]

>>3346646
Grok says it means "licker" as in honey licker geg

Scob H7^yTpWg 05/07/26 (Thu) 13:51:16 №3346672 [Quote]

>>3346656
This theory is considered to be less likely, it's probably just a coincidence that the word sound similar

Scob H7^yTpWg 05/07/26 (Thu) 13:51:25 №3346673 [Quote]

words*

Scob H7^yTpWg 05/07/26 (Thu) 13:52:13 №3346678 [Quote]

>>3346656
"Shaggy" and "Trampler" are the two main hypotheses

Scob Kbn909ho 05/07/26 (Thu) 13:53:40 №3346688 [Quote]

>>3346672
Could honestly mean anything really. Klakys (an older version of klaikus) could also be word of origin, meaning horrific. I find ancient balts calling bears "lickers" funnier.

Chud Kbn909ho 05/07/26 (Thu) 13:55:15 №3346698 [Quote]

Btw how many times did a bear appear out of nowhere after they said arktos for them to drop the word entirely geg

Scob H7^yTpWg 05/07/26 (Thu) 13:55:51 №3346700 [Quote]

>>3346698
I imagine it happened once and everyone was so terrified they spread the news across the tribes geg