From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 19400
Date: 2003-02-28
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Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 1:55 AM
Subject: [tied] Again about cornix, coturnix, çukapikth < çukapiks
> I think that my propostion about the same morphem for birds names -
ks, like Latin: cornix, -icis; coturnix, -icis; Albanian çukapikth <
çukapiks deserve much more attention. We have also in Greek the bird
name phoenix, but also the beast name sphinx "stalnger", which is
very similar to Albanian word shtazë "beast" < *sta(ln)gwhâ, that in
one or other way remember us on hard memory when our ancestors have
to deal with giant birds, that was more killers than birds.
What's a "stalnger"? Just curious.
BTW, last time our ancestors had to scurry away from Big Birds was in the early Oligocene, some 35 million years ago -- much too early to be remembered :)
Piotr