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Due to taboo avoidance, Latin moved away from the Proto-Indo-European term for eagle, “h₃érō” to the euphemism “Aquila” (literally meaning “the black/dark one”).
If taboo avoidance hadn’t led to this switch, what would the Latin descendant of “h₃érō” have looked like?
u/Lee_Harvey_Obama — 23 days ago