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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci
<akonushevci@...> wrote:
> For me, Greek cognat of Alb. gjarp is Harpy "a mailing monster -
> curiously - part woman and part bird", Lat. serpens.
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I'm not sure what a mailing monster is, but I certainly don't like
the
idea of 'gjarp' and 'harpy' being cognate.
Alb. 'gjarp', Gk. 'herpes', L. 'serpens' < Pokorny 1699 SER,
SERP "snake"
Gk. '(H)arpuiai' < Pokorny 1701 SER, SERP "sickle" and secondarily
(?) "grasp".
Whatever they may have been originally (winds?), Harpies were
creatures of the air, snakes are not. If the Proto-IndoEuropeans
had a problem with "snake" and "sickle" being homonyms, they seem to
have survived it.
Dan