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latin for milk-giver. crap I don't know!! lol. good question
The same reason everything else has its name.. human, pig, ducks, raccoons lol Its probably impossable to know!
cow (n.)
O.E. cu, from P.Gmc. *kwon, earlier *kwom, from PIE *gwous (cf. Skt. gaus, Gk. bous, L. bov-), perhaps ult. imitative of lowing (cf. Sumerian gu, Chinese ngu, ngo 'ox'). In Gmc., of females only; in other languages, of either gender. Cowhand is first attested 1852 in Amer.Eng.; cowboy is from 1725, originally 'a boy who tends cows;' Western U.S. sense from 1849, as an adj. meaning 'reckless,' 1920s; cowlick is from 1598. Cowpoke (1881) was originally restricted to the cowboys who prodded cattle onto railroad cars with long poles.
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