Re: Crows and Garlands

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001" <george.st@...> wrote:

> >'crow' seems to be in most FU languages.
> Another of the Corvidae family:
>
> Hungarian csóka ['tSo:-kO] "jackdaw", Corvus monedula
> (cf. German Dohle), black and grey.

Isn't this just an attempt to portray the bird's call?

The two sites in my last post give the Old English name as -

"Ceo ... [or] ... Ceahhe"

not too different to the Magyar word,
and the

"Call: A musical "Cheow. Cheow""

Ben