Yetos
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I'd like to shed light on two words in the list here:
Albanian "cjap" (note that Albanian "c" is pronounced as "ts") has a cognate in Romanian "țap-", and hence can be traced to a common root *tsap-.
Furthermore, Sanskrit "aja" has cognates in Greek and Armenian. Bear in mind that "kapros" means 'boar', and an actual word for 'goat' is "aiga". In a similar fashion, Armenian has the word "aits". If we consider Indic and Armenian sound laws, the ancestral form can be faithfully reconstructed as *aig´-.
I agree Aegean means sea of goats, Aigina means island of Goat, and Aigai (Aegae) the Makedonian capital means Goats, consider that Alexander in old teastament is mention Kings of Goats and described as a big male Goat with 1 horn,
An interesting case is that Goths might also mean goat, since the Greeks call them Getae (Get = goat)
the case of Kapr- in Greek means male boar
but in Italian is Capricorne
so I also agree that Romanian Albanian tsap is after Roma Caprus Ibex
the 2 species that confuse us are
Caprus Ibex the European antelope of Alps (mountain wild Goat)
Capra aegagrus hircus the domestic Goat
goat which fits with Aega is the known domestic Goat
caprus which fits with *tsap is the wild mountain goat
sometimes I think that we might might create languages according how we read letters
comparing -c which many times is read as -ts and other as -k
a Kentum speaker might read Caprus as Kaprus
and a Satem speaker will read -c as tsaprus