Question

A taboo against the name of this animal led to its English name being derived either from a word for wild animal or for brown. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this animal that was taboo in many Eurasian cultures. However, either the original Proto-Indo-European name for this animal or a very early taboo replacement is likely preserved in its Latin name of ursus.
ANSWER: bears
[10h] That phenomenon makes the word for bear a term described by this originally Māori (“MAH-or-ee”) word, the opposite of taboo.
ANSWER: noa
[10m] The bear taboo of Proto-Indo-Europeans may have come about through contact with speakers of this language family. This language family includes Estonian and the Sámi languages.
ANSWER: Uralic [or Uralian; accept Finno-Ugric]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, Social Science>

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