I would suggest that *tauro- is a late semitic loanword, while *steuro- is a more nativised and also older. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Ethan Osten had expected me to explain Old English steor because he falsely assumed that all IEists explain it through *tauro- and that I somehow should too. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I find it very hard to believe that *tauro- and *steuro- are unrelated, though their histories would be different. ❋ Unknown (2010)
They reconstruct both *tauro- and a separate root *steuro-. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Regardless of whether *tauro- is genuinely a PIE root or simply younger, it's without a doubt a Semitic loanword. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It seems without discussion that *tauro- is a semitic loanword though. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As soon as I appeared upon the balcony, all the people beneath gathered round and began to cry, Senor! tauro! tauro! ❋ Various (N/A)
Voluntati sacrarum intendo scripturarum, vos dissonantiam facitis, verendumque est né aratrum sancta ecclesia, quod in Anglia duo boves validi et pari fortitudine, ad bonum certantes, id est, rex et archepiscopus, debeant trahere nunc ove verula cum tauro indomito jugata, distorqueatur a recto. ❋ Thomas Malory Jean Froissart (N/A)
Voluntati sacrarum intendo scripturarum, vos dissonantiam facitis, verendúmque est nè aratrum sanctæ ecclesiæ, quod in Anglia duo boves validi et pari fortitudine, ad bonum certantes, id est, rex et archiepiscopus, debeant trahere, nunc ove vetula cum tauro indomito jugata, distorqueatur à recto. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Ego ovis vetula, qui si quietus essem, verbi Dei lacte, et operimento lanæ, aliquibus possèm fortassis non ingratus esse, sed si me cum hoc tauro coniungitis, videbitis pro disparilitate trahentium, aratrum non rectè procedere, etc. ❋ Unknown (1909)
_Missus sum in vineam_, _Multiformis hominum_, _Fallax est et mobilis_, _A tauro torrida_, _Heliconis rivulo_, _Tanto viro locuturi_, among which is the famous Apocalypse ascribed by Salimbene to Primas, are given to Walter of Lille in the Paris MS. edited by ❋ Various (1866)
Banco del mutuo soccorso - Nudo (1997) tauro | Date: 14 Mar 2010 04: 09: 17 | Comments: ❋ Tauro (2010)
L L Familiae Thoriae nomen a tauro deduftum fuifle» ex numis argenteis arguit Vrfinus» vbi taurus incifus reperitur. ❋ Unknown (1794)
De tauro partis aversae, qni obvhls hibent, ut dubttaii non possit, utromqae est in Neapolitanorum moneta, agetor ❋ Unknown (1792)
At cur caput humanum tauro perculsos fuisse mortales videntea rem additur? ❋ Unknown (1792)
Scblaegeri £uro« pae raptus p. 8« ct de fabulat adumbratae fcnfu, feu de eo, quod fub Europa tauro vecla abfcondi* derunt vcteres.ih. p. 39 fq. — - ❋ Johann Christoph Rasche (1785)
Cod. reiiqui omnes grauis, quod Broukil. qui cumlieid. itahabet expiicat de tauro grandi» aduito ❋ Propertius, Sextus (1777)
6 And Frazer continuing says: ` ` That the bath of blood derived from slaughter of the bull (tauro-bolium) was believed to regenerate the devotee for eternity is proved by an inscription found at Rome, which records that a certain Sextilius Agesilaus Aedesius, who dedicated an altar to Attis and the mother of the gods (Cybele) was taurobolio criobolio que in aeternum renatus. '' ❋ Unknown (1920)
A Tauros appeared!
[Gamer] : Omg Yes!
Tauros [ran] away
Gamer : [Gay]! ❋ Legs You Legend (2009)
[Tauro-scatology] alert! [The Presidential] debates are being aired tonight and we're in for such [dreck] as "The Audacity of Hope." ❋ Elvis Wearing A Bra On His Head (2007)
