chol - welsh

[-JKP-]

Most people know what the word "simba" means (Swahili for "lion") and I've even come across the word in old manuscripts (I can't remember exactly how old), so the use of the word in European culture predates the Tarzan movies by a few centuries.

But there is zero reason for a foreign word to displace a basic word like "childbearing".

I would agree and the similarity could also be completely coincidental, but the Celtic people (some of whom settled in Wales) originally came from the Iberian Peninsula and, through further migration, from central Europe (where they lived for a few centuries).

I don't know if there would have been any Arabic influence on their language in those locations, but when one considers that the Finns, many of whom are light blond, with Scandinavian DNA, speak a language completely unrelated to Scandinavian (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian), one that has been strongly influenced by Turkic and Mongolic incursions, obviously interesting things can happen.