Yes we have Croatian potkovatiand Bulgarian podkovavam meaning«to shoe horses», O.K.
But a link between words likekova[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]ř[/FONT]/kowal/kova[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]č[/FONT]and words likekobila/kobyla ? I think it'sgoing to far – the V >< B differenceis not an obstacle in a diachronic point of view and the /b>>v/evolution is very common in some languages, for the most betweenvowels – but in a same language at the same stage of history,without dialectal forms, it becomes an obstacle to the conclusion ofa common origin - &: the prononuciation is /v/ and /b/ in everyslavic language between vowels, so no sound according to otherconsonnant, whatever the spelling – all the slavic languages I saw(russian, polish, czech, serbian-croatian, bulgarian) present thesame opposition in these two meanings -
/v/>< /b/so... 2different roots, I bet -
theonly semantical link between the words concerning smith work andhorses in slavics are based on the «metal» notion, nothing else –the same occur in breton where the original «smith» equivalent, gov(gob- inceltic) is very often replaced by the word marichal/marchalof germanic origin and passedin it through french language – marichal / maréchal(marshall) derives fromgerm-(OHG) marah-skalkwhere the «horse» notion is evident (the smithes used to shoehorses with iron shoes) -
inrussian and polish there are two seemingly different roots for«smith-» or «smithy» or «to forge»: kov-and kuc- [koots] -
Ihave no idea of their possible link and the previous generic meaning-
veryhazardous hypothesis (fun): '°'= MY bets >< '*'= scholars bets-
kuts<< °kow+k+j ?°kow-d-s ? < - >°kow-ak-j ? >>kovac (monophtonguisons is common in slavic evolution (here /ou/ >>/u/) as well as lost of consonnants in groups) -
anI-Ean root *kau-would exist (scholars) : «to cut», «to prune» - Lat- cu-dere,cusum to beat, to forge», «toform» + incus, incudis,Italian incudine,French enclume«anvil», see Polish kowadlo«anvil» – Germ-O-H-G houwan >> hauen : «to hew» – heu : «hay»>> French houe,houlette, hoyau – English tohew >> hay -
theCzech kovina «metal»could very well be the source and explanation and cut short otherspeculations?
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kobila <<kobyla <<°kobula <<°kob-l << °k[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]ă[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]b-l[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]or[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]°k[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]ă[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]p-l[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif],see [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]caballus[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]but too [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]capal/ceffyl[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif](celticwhere the root seems being [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]°kapp-l[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]–) - ? an european root, perhaps non I-Ean ? - [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]&:in Kurdic I found in a dictionary the words: [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]keil,kiayl [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]«purerace horse», Turkic [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]kehlanati – [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]it's pure speculation for curiosity[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]lacking the old forms, knowing the phonetical evolution can send usvery far, so I don't know if we have here a cognate of[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]°kabal-/°kappal[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]???[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]alater loan to celtic (?) or other I-Ean [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]'kaval'[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]could explain the form [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]koval[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]buthere again, [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]koval[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]is not a one-bit word but a compound of[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]kov+al[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif],as we can see with other slavic derived words on the same ground:[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]kov[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]a[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]č[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]nica[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]/ kow[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]adlo[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]/ kov[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]ati[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]...[/FONT]