köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese cervo, from Latin cervus (“deer, stag”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂wós, from *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Cognate with Galician cervo, Spanish ciervo, Catalan cérvol, Occitan cèrvi, French cerf, Italian cervo and Romanian cerb.
köken: Inherited from Old Czech jelen, from Proto-Slavic *(j)elenь, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el-en-i-, which is often being connected with *h₁el- (“yellow-brown”). Its Slavic cognates are Polish jeleń (“deer”) or Russian оле́нь (olénʹ, “deer”), other Indo-European cognates are Lithuanian élnis or álnis (“deer”), Old Irish elit (“roe deer”), Welsh elain (“hind”), Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “deer”)…
köken: Etymology tree Latin caprea Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin -olus Latin capreolus From caprea (“roe”) + -olus.
köken: Compound of fia (“deer”). It is unclear whether the first element is carr (“cart, wagon”), carr (“spear”), carr (“scab”), carr (“mouth, face”) or a cranberry morpheme with no independent existence.