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> > Don't forget Dutch paard/German Pferd, both derived from a third Latin
> > term "para veredus", from the days when common people had little
> > experience with horses other than seeing those used by the king's
> > messenger service.
> >
>
> uhh... it appears far more likely that they just derive from a common root
> than that this is in some way related to latin, esp as these common people
> wouldn't have known it (amnd its largely the words that they used that are
> in common circulation)

Check any etymological dictionary for palfrey/paard/Pferd ;)

What makes you think that common people would have been unfamiliar with
the king's couriers, when they would have had to scurry out of the way
every time they heard them coming down the road?

Cheers,

Viktor