Karja (Kari)

Essentially cattle or a herd of cattle, but other farm animals too, drove of pigs, flock of sheep, geese... and other groupings: flock (church or birds), pack of wolves, crowd and all the way down to collectives of relatives, complainants, children and empty bottles. In its earliest iterations in both MLG, vee strate (1362) or vestrate (1367) and Lat. strata pecorum (1367), platea pecorum (1369) or vicus pecorum (1373), the animals are essentially domestic, primarily cattle. The PIE root for both is *peku- ‘wealth, movable property, livestock’, with Latin evolving into Eng. ‘pecuniary’, and Old Eng. from feoh ‘cattle, money’ through ‘fief’ and ‘feudal’ to ‘fee’, while German went through its phases of MLG vē, veh, vehe, etc., OHG fihu and MHG vihe, vehe (livestock, property, assets…), it still ended up with Nutztier (‘animal to be used’). Earlier name of Suur-Karja (1885-1908).