From: Manuel Rosario
Message: 2410
Date: 2000-05-11
>From: DEFAYES MICHEL <mdesfaye@...>________________________________________________________________________
>Reply-To: cybalist@egroups.com
>To: cybalist@egroups.com
>Subject: Re: [cybalist] Re: Hamp and his dog
>Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 19:37:38 +0200
>
>In the course of this discussion on kuo:n, no body has ever bothered to
>ask:
>what is the characteristic of a dog ? All animals are named after one of
>their characters, or sometimes their function. The main characteristic of a
>dog is that it is noisy and most names, dialectal or other, refer to this
>character. Thus the Greek name should belong to a base of acoustic origin,
>in this case k-n, s-n (dog, noisy birds or other animals):
>
>English to sound
>English hound a dog trained to pursue game (while barking); to excite a
>dog,
>to harass without respite
>English chinting-hound Black-headed Gull
>German hund dog
>Latvian sunit invectivate
>Latvian suns dog
>Armenian Sun id.
>Sanskrit sun id.
>Kafir �una id.
>Latvian ku?a id.
>Anc.Greek kyon id.
>French: Foug?res cun mauvais chien, FEW 20: 7
>French reg. k�nar chien, FEW 20: 7
>French reg. cunaud jeune chien, FEW 22: 8
>Anc.Greek k�nabos sonorous noise
>Russian kon horse
>Russian konek Tree Pipit (neighing song)
>Polish konik Tree Pipit
>Serbo-Croatian konjska sova Tawny Owl
>Serbo-Croatian konjarica et var. Tree Pipit
>Ukrainian kanjux Tawny Owl
>Czech konicek Black-headed Gull
>Russian kanyt Turkey
>Russian kanjucit to neigh
>Serbo-Croatian kanja (Sorabian id.) Green Woodpecker
>Serbo-Croatian kanja Curlew
>Slavic kanja Black Kite; Buzzard
>French cagne chien "femelle"
>Romanian c�ine dog
>Romanian c�ine-t�t�resc Lapwing
>Romanian c�ina to bark
>Albanian qen dog
>French chien dog
>(etc.)
>
>Other animal names:
>k-t
>English cat a domestic animal (meows); a woman given to malicious gossip;
>tackle used in hoisting an anchor
>English catboat a boat having one mast (see catamaran, hereunder)
>English cat-gull Black-headed Gull
>Spanish: Amer. cata, catita (widspread from Mexico to Argentina) parrot
>Galician cata interjection: Spanish ojal�
>French: Saugues cata Buzzard
>French: G�vaudan cato Kestrel
>French: Norm. cateau Magpie
>French: I.Maurice cateau parrot
>French: Calv. catacou� Hooded Crow
>English chat chattering
>English chatterpie Magpie
>Italian: Piem. ciattar?n et var. Corn Bunting
>Romanian chiot loud call
>Polish kytaika Brambling
>English kitty chat; Black-headed Gull
>English kittiwake Kittywake
>
>k-ts (cat, birds that meow)
>German katze cat
>German reg. katzenadler Buzzard
>German reg. tunkatz Whitethroat
>German reg. katzawedl Whitethroat
>Romanian cat� strident call; backbiter; Guineafowl; chatter of the Magpie
>Romanian reg. c�t� Guineafowl
>Romanian c�t�i to chirp, to cackle, to chatter
>Romanian c�t�car� Magpie
>Romanian rat� c�t�r�toare Goldeneye,
>
>h-rs
>English hoarse raucous, harsh
>English horse animal that emits a hoarse call
>English horse-thrush Mistle Thrush
>English: Ireland horse-ouzel Ring Ouzel
>English horse-lark Corn Bunting
>English: Scotland arse hen, arseen (for hoarse hen) Corncrake
>English: Ireland horse-gull Gull
>English horse-finch Greenfinch
>English: Shetl. horse-sparrow Starling
>English: Shetl. hoarse-gowk, horse-gowk Snipe
>
>d-k
>Lithuanian dukas Bittern
>French reg. ducass Eagle Owl
>Sanskrit dyuka owl
>Serbo-Croatian doktati to sing (Capercaillie)
>Polish dukacz to crow
>Gaelic: Ireland diucain to moan
>Italian dugo (Catalan id.) Eagle Owl
>French reg. d�go Turkey
>English dog a domestic animal (barking is one of its main characteristics)
>
>(these are only a few terms from a very long list)
>(diacritic marks not shown)
>
>
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>eGroups eLerts
>It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free!
>http://click.egroups.com/1/3863/0/_/2431/_/957721012/
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>