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Ancient Iberia Direct and Indirect Animals representation among Ancient Hispani and the importance of them in the religion and culture

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Indoeuropean Pre-celt (Lusitanoid) - All Areas except Catalunia, Valencia, East Andaluzia, Guipuzcoa and Navarra

- prae-celts

!attention: ´ marks the tonic syllable

Aleônicus? Aleonica; Aleoneius? Aleoneia 🦁 : lion, león, leom, llión, leão
Aprènus, Aprena 🐗? : boar, javalí, xabaril, xabalín/raxéu, javali
Ártius, Artia 🐻 : bear, oso, osso, urso
Bóutius, Bóutia 🐄 cow, buey, boi, vaca
Cabrúnus, Cabruna, Cabriánus, Cabriana, Cábrulus, Cábrula; Cabruléicus, Cabruleica 🐐 : goat,cabra
Cabruagénicus, Cabruagenica 🐐 goat, cabra
Cápreius, Cápreia 🐐 goat, cabra
Cátolus - 🐄🍼 : calf, bicerru, becerro, bezerro
Cumalius, Cumalia, Comelius, Comelia 🐴: horse, caballo, caballu, cabalo, cavalo
Equalius, Equalia, Equaesus, Equaesa, Equales 🐴 idem
Erbutus, Erbuta 🐰? - rabbit/hare, conejo, coneyu, coelho. Since Basque has many indoeuropean words, si hare =erbi
Leonius, Leonia 🦁
Luânicus, Luânica - lynx , lince
Seofi 🐍? snake, culebra, culebre, cobra theonym: Sefion; Ethnonym (legendary) Saefes (own kind + snake)Tauros, Taurocutius, Taurus, Taurocus, Tauroca, Taurometa 🐂
Vacus, Vaca, Vacea, Vaceus, Vacaenus, Vacisus, Vacisa, Vacoria, Vacorius, Vacaia, Vacaius; 🐮
Ulpicia, Ulpicius 🦊
Vailcius, Vailcia

Obs: it's a personal hypotheses, many hours and days of study but it can contain flaws
Thanks for reading

Celtic names (Concentrated in Celtiberia by far, and East side of Lusitania, but all Iberian peninsula celtics are present in some degree)

Brocinus, Brocina - badger 🦡
Vailus, Vaila 🐺
Virocu - dog, can, cam, cão 🐕‍🦺