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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
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> But falcon is Germanic too, isn't it? OE falca=OHG falho. Germanic
xaBukaz and Slavic kobIcI points to a PIE (or at least NorthIE)
*kabH-/kobH- . Etruscan capus is still unexplained: A Etruscan
loanwoard in Italic; or a Italic loanword in Etruscan? Perhabs an
onomatopoeic origin, from *ka-.
Dansk Etymologisk Ordbog:
"
falk, ODa falk(e), Nw, Sw falk, Late ON falki; loan from MLG valk(e),
corr. to OHG falc(h)o, German Falke. The designation seems to
originate in Southern Germanic territory, since a suff. -k known from
other bird names (eg. German Kranich "crane" has been added to the
adj. German fahl "fallow, grey" ... Its name is supposed to have spread
from the south with falconry, and it is assumed that its Lat. name
falco is a Germanic loan in Latin; from this language the name has
been passed to the Romance languages as eg. French faucon and English
falcon.
"
The odd thing here is that falconry is a Middle Eastern invention,
but here it seems to have gone straight to central Germany (the -k
is also a NWBlock suffix) bypassing Italy. Another pointer that
the Germani came from the east.
Torsten