--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton <dmilt1896@...>"
<dmilt1896@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci
> <akonushevci@...> wrote:
> > For me, Greek cognat of Alb. gjarp is Harpy "a mailing monster -
> > curiously - part woman and part bird", Lat. serpens.
> ______
I'm not sure what a mailing monster is, but I certainly don't like
the idea of 'gjarp' and 'harpy' being cognate.
Alb. 'gjarp', Gk. 'herpes', L. 'serpens' < Pokorny 1699 SER,
SERP "crawl"
Gk. '(H)arpuiai' < Pokorny 1701 S SERP "sickle", secondarily
(?) "grasp".
Whatever they may have been originally (winds?), Harpies were
creatures of the air, snakes are not. If the Proto-IndoEuropeans
had a problem with "snake" and "sickle" being homonyms, they seem
to have survived it.
>
Dan
(minor corrections to my Pokorny citations in previous post)