köken: From Middle Dutch hamel, from Old Dutch *hamal, from Proto-Germanic *hamalaz (“mutilated, castrated”). Cognate with German Hammel. Further origin uncertain; perhaps related to ham (“bacon”).
köken: Cognate with Old Norse and Icelandic baggi, Old Norse bǫggr, Middle English bagge. The hypothesis for the shift in sense from "bag" to "ram" is by reference to the testicles of an unneutered ram. Doublet of bagage and packe.
köken: From Proto-Italic *arjēts ~ *erjēts (compare Umbrian 𐌄𐌓𐌉𐌄𐌕𐌖 (erietu)), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₁r-i-(e)t- (“young domesticated caprine”). Cognate with Old Irish heirp, erb (“kid”), Ancient Greek ἔριφος (ériphos, “kid”), displaying a different suffix, and perhaps Old Armenian որոջ (oroǰ, “lamb”), երինջ (erinǰ, “heifer”). However, as the cognates demonstrate, this has the characteristics…
aile: arietārius, arietīnus, arietō
cum mare trux ariēs cornū dēcertat; at īdem
Etimoloji
From Middle High German schopz, schöpz (“castrated male sheep”), from a West Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *skopьcь (“eunuch, someone castrated”), from the verb *skopiti (“to castrate”). The restriction to sheep may be due to the phonetic similarity to Middle High German schāf (“sheep”), but compare Czech skopec (“castrated ram”). Compare Yiddish שעפּס (sheps, “sheep”), Russian скопе́ц…