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caballo (Noun) "horse" 10th cent. From Latin caballus 'id.' Of non-Indo-European origin. Borrowed from an unknown language in Asia with the root *kab- (compare Turkish käväl "swift (horse);" Russian kobýla "mare;" Old Church Slavonic koņь "horse"). Further consider Semitic words for camel with a structure *gam- (Akkadian gammalu, Hebrew gāmāl), hypothesized to be borrowed from an unattested word in Sumerian. Also the origin of the surnames Caballero, Caballeros, first given to horsemongers. Indo-European Romance Asturian caballu, Portuguese cavalo, Galician cabalo, Catalan cavall, French cheval, Italian cavallo, Aromanian cal, Romanian cal, Sardinian cadhu Hellenic Ancient Greek καβάλλιον (kabállion) "workhorse" Beekes, R. S. P. Etymological Dictionary of Greek. BRILL. 2014. Black, J. A., et al. A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian. Ed. by J. A. Black, et al. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. 2000. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. BRILL. 2014. Muss-Arnolt, W. A Concise Dictionary of the Assyrian Languages. Vol. 1. Reuther & Reichard. 1905. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sakhno, S. "The Lexicon of Slavic" in Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics. Ed. by J. Klein et al. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. 2018. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008. Tibón, G. Diccionario etimológico comparado de los apellidos españoles, hispanoamericanos y filipinos. Editorial Diana: Mexico. 1988.