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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> 20-08-03 02:09, Richard Wordingham wrote:
>
> > Can we not also include Latin corvus, which looks like k^worh2 +
wo-
> > or k^wor + wo- ? I'm not sure about the k-r-n- words, though.
>
> It's hard to be sure about anything here, especially in view of all
that
> possible onomatopoeic reshaping. I've always thought of <corvus> as
> somehow related to <rook> (OE hro:c) a la Pokorny, but those bird-
names
> evidently need some rethinking.
>
The reason I left out Words for "raven" in
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/krn.html
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/krn.html
(I should get around to re-merging and -splitting them one day)
is that Swedish and Norwegian replaced the 'ravn' that we Danes are
content with with 'korp'. Italian loan!? I'd say onomatopoeic, at the
same time ridding myself of the suspicion of being one-eyed. Yes,
they probably exist. What (re-)puzzled me (after the author) was the
large number of near-similar creepy-crawly words along the African
coast, consistent with pre-Bantu-Expansion loans along a round-Africa
route.
Torsten