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hehehuh t1_j6hh0nu wrote

Reply to comment by only_for_browsing in 🔥 A Polar Bear following photographer Paul Souders from under the ice. by W0lfsKitten

It's not really lost, I think. Some languages still use it, for example ursus in Latin is afaik closely related to the original Germanic word. But indeed bear is derived from the word brown

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only_for_browsing t1_j6hjbkq wrote

I'm going off my brother who is almost worryingly obsessed with bears. Apparently ursa and other bear words all came from proto Indo European and all are not the original word for bear, which is lost, because of the fear. He could definitely be wrong but that's how he tells it

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