From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 21001
Date: 2003-04-14
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From: "Abdullah Konushevci" <a_konushevci@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 12:53 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Albanian-Romanian Concordances
> In "Le Vocabulaire Indo-Européen, Lexique étymologique thématique" (Paris, 1984) by X. Delamarre we found in paqe 139: *karhka 'pie': (sk.) sarika 'pie', (arm.)sareak 'etourneau', (lit.) sarka 'pie', (rus.) soroka 'id', pt. e. aussi (alb.) sorrë 'corneille'.
I almost agree with Xavier, except that careful analysis reveals more detail: there's Greek evidence for normal *o rather than aberrant *a in the first syllable (<koraks>), all the Satem branches agree in making initial *k^- necessary, and Albanian as well as some Slavic dialects (SCr. svr"aka < *svórka) suggest *k^w- with unstable *w. Xavier's gloss for the Indic word is inaccurate: although the blackbilled magpie (_Pica pica_) probably reached NW India even before it became synanthropic, the Skt. term <s'a:ri: ~ s'a:rika:> refers to the locally more common and characteristic myna birds.
The basic form is certainly something like *k^(w)orh2-, to which diminutive (*k^worh2-k-ah2) and/or feminine (*k^we:rh2-ih2) suffixes could be added.
Piotr