[LMB] AKICOT:L Bambi in Spanish & Italian

[Rachel Ganz]

>But I know of no well supported explanation as why  mutton/beef/pork/veal
> went one way and chicken/duck/lamb/pigeon/salmon/rabbit/hare /swan/wild
> boar went the other except "languages are like that".

They're not farmed  (except chicken and rabbit)?
Diferent cooking methods or requirements- so they were commonly eaten, (either officially or unofficially) by the poor as well as the rich? (You could cook them on a smallish fire - no oven required.)

Leading on from that, you could cook them all whole, so you didn't need a word for the meat, because you could tell from the shape, whereas if it was in a pie or a stew, you did - but that is building an etymological edifice on foundations of sand.

Rachel

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