On: Wanderwort

[grafelic]

Would the name for a bovine classify as a "Wanderwort"?:

  Sanskrit: Ghou  
  English: Cow  
  Danish: Ko  
  German: Kuh

Or is it more of an indication of the Indo-European relationship between the languages?

[RamblingCTO → grafelic]

Only if it travelled through the languages afaiu. Sounds more like a common root to me, which wouldn't be a wanderwort.

[grafelic → RamblingCTO]

Thanks, that makes sense.

[samus → grafelic]

It can be both. This word is old enough that it was significantly affected by the evolution of languages. But since some non-Indo-European languages have words that sound similar (the Chinese ones, in my uneducated opinion), it could indeed initially have been a Wanderwort.

[gpvos → grafelic]

No, that would be an inherited word (most likely, I didn't look it up).