Re: Birds

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 3830
Date: 2000-09-18

Will "coot" and "grebe" do? I think they are both analysable as
ultimately Brythonic, even if borrowed indirectly. (Your capercailzie
etymology is of course flawless.)

Piotr


--- In cybalist@egroups.com, Dennis King <donncha1@...> wrote:

> Name a bird, more common than the capercaillie, whose
> English name has a probable Brythonic origin. (There
> are at least two.)