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Senators Game Day Prediction: The reconstructed Proto-Indo-European root-word for bear is hrktos which lives on in the Avestan, Greek, and Latin words for bear (arsa, arktos, and ursus, respectively), as well as, perhaps, in the given name Arthur. In many members of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages, however, the bear was a sacred, totemic animal, and could only be referred to euphemistically. As such, the German bären, Scandinavian bjorn, and English bear all mean brown one. The archaic English word for bear -- bruin -- also shares this same etymology. However, while the Boston Bruins are indeed brown ones, this name does not derive from the animal, the bear (despite what their third jerseys might have you believe), but rather from the colour of their underwear after contemplating facing the Ottawa Senators in this afternoons match up. Senators win 16-2.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 17:02:37 +0000

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