From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 55717
Date: 2008-03-22
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From: Rick McCallister
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] hoopoe
Spanish abubilla is from Latin --either Classic or
Vulgar, so forget about that and concentrate on Berber
and Egyptian forms as well as IE and other words for
"tuft, shock (of hair, grain, etc.)"
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Apart from Berber, Arabic
you have Hebrew zi:p
and what is very important and conclusive,
in Starostin Altaic *s^(i)os^e "(head) hair"
supporting by mandchu
Korean is unclear (feather ?)
and Turcic is tainted by Mandchu
only Dolgan and Yakut /as/ are cognates
the rest of western turcic is LW.
Altaic is from *dzo?p- > sho-
The root exists !
Arnaud
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