I’m not sure if Lemmy does tables the same way and hope that renders correctly, but I’ve borrowed some possible non-euphemism PIE reconstructions for how it might’ve gone, and I have to say my favorite would be “rought” pronounced /ɹʌft/. But I could also see “orough” turning into “owo” which amuses me greatly.
Not quite, they started saying “bear” instead of its real name, Ȧ̷̢̨͇͓͛̒͐͐́̓̎́͌͜͝Ṛ̸̭̫͕̒̈̚͜Ķ̶̢̛͍͚͕̤̜̗͕͖͎̞̣̋̓̄͒͆̏̐͑͒̿͆́͠ͅṬ̷̢̩̠̖͖͖̼̙̼̪̯̈͜O̵̰͕̓̋̊̊̾̈͐
I’m not sure if Lemmy does tables the same way and hope that renders correctly, but I’ve borrowed some possible non-euphemism PIE reconstructions for how it might’ve gone, and I have to say my favorite would be “rought” pronounced /ɹʌft/. But I could also see “orough” turning into “owo” which amuses me greatly.
isn’t bear supposed to mean ‘the brown one’ ?
Yes, so “bear” is the euphemism people started to use in order to avoid saying its real name. Or so the theory goes, anyway.