Re: [tied] Crows and Garlands

18-08-03 23:58, Richard Wordingham wrote:

> I had been contemplating a blend of Latin coro:na with its
> diminutive corolla (attested as 'small garland') to give *coro:la.
> That would have yielded Romanian *curoara. Does Romanian have any
> trace of Latin corvus 'crow' (cf. French corbeau, from Proto-Romance
> *corbellus) or corni:cem (acc.) 'raven', or corni:cula 'little crow'?

Not a trace but the whole ungainly, ghastly, etc., corb 'raven, rook' <
corvum (not diminutive!). The 'crow' word is substratal <cioarã>, with a
cognate in Albanian (<sorrë>), discussed here some time ago.

Piotr