Why Horses Are called Horses :: miscellaneous

Why Horses Are called HorsesAround stables and in the circles of knight lovers every(prenominal) where, names such as, buck, pony, entire, mare, and foal, are some of the countersigns verbalized. These names are speak absent mindly without a thought to their origin. The word horse in hypothesis comes from an ancient term of a similar inwardness,swift, or running. Hence the word horse is an appropriate name for an animal that has increased the mobility of humans since the domestication of the beast. A small horse that is not over fifty-eight inches, or in equine language, fourteen hands, high regardless of age or sex is referred to as a pony. Pony, did not originally start out as this word. A Latin word pullus, meaning foal started the chain. From this came pullanus, meaning colt. A small colt was abandoned the name of poulenet, pronounced pool-ney. Whenever the name reached Scotland the Scots dropped the l, and said poo-ney. So in these modern-day condemnations we simply pronounce it pony. An unpredictable and sometimes dangerous horse is the stallion. A stallion refers to an adult male horse that has not been castrated. The word stallion dates back to the fourteenth century. Its meaning is literally one kept in a stall, the stall-i-on. Mostly docile and predictable, unless she has a foal by her side, is the mare, An Anglo-Saxon word for horses in general was mearh, and the feminine of this was mere. Therefore, we now use the word mare, meaning and adult female horse. Foal, is the name of a untried horse so named from the time it is born till it has been weaned. Another Anglo-Saxon word fola, has given us this word. The corresponding feminine name is filly. One which we still use today. filly, refers to any young female horse, from the time it is weaned till it is four years old. In todays terms we refer to the weaned male foal until it is four as a colt. though colt, is a narrow term used today it is run aground in the book of Genesis. There is a reference in the seventeenth-century translation to, 30 camels with their colts. Another Biblical reference describes a colt as the foal of an ass. Though colt, was not originally intended to refer to a young male equine it is the standard form today. A gelding, is a mature horse that has been castrated.Why Horses Are called Horses miscellaneousWhy Horses Are called HorsesAround stables and in the circles of horse lovers every where, names such as, horse, pony, stallion, mare, and foal, are some of the words verbalized. These names are spoken absent mindly without a thought to their origin. The word horse in theory comes from an ancient term of a similar meaning,swift, or running. Hence the word horse is an appropriate name for an animal that has increased the mobility of humans since the domestication of the beast. A small horse that is not over fifty-eight inches, or in equine language, fourteen hands, high regardless of age or sex is referred to as a pony. Pony, did not orig inally start out as this word. A Latin word pullus, meaning foal started the chain. From this came pullanus, meaning colt. A small colt was given the name of poulenet, pronounced pool-ney. Whenever the name reached Scotland the Scots dropped the l, and said poo-ney. So in these modern times we simply pronounce it pony. An unpredictable and sometimes dangerous horse is the stallion. A stallion refers to an adult male horse that has not been castrated. The word stallion dates back to the fourteenth century. Its meaning is literally one kept in a stall, the stall-i-on. Mostly docile and predictable, unless she has a foal by her side, is the mare, An Anglo-Saxon word for horses in general was mearh, and the feminine of this was mere. Therefore, we now use the word mare, meaning and adult female horse. Foal, is the name of a young horse so named from the time it is born till it has been weaned. Another Anglo-Saxon word fola, has given us this word. The corresponding feminine name is fill y. One which we still use today. filly, refers to any young female horse, from the time it is weaned till it is four years old. In todays terms we refer to the weaned male foal until it is four as a colt. Though colt, is a narrow term used today it is found in the book of Genesis. There is a reference in the seventeenth-century translation to, thirty camels with their colts. Another Biblical reference describes a colt as the foal of an ass. Though colt, was not originally intended to refer to a young male equine it is the standard form today. A gelding, is a mature horse that has been castrated.