[tied] Re: Crows and Garlands

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 19-08-03 22:02, Richard Wordingham wrote:
> Discussed last April; see:
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/20975
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/20980
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/21001

I hadn't seen those.

> My own analysis is therefore *k^worh2-, with variants (*k^w- is

also

> supported by Serbo-Croatian). Since the occasional loss of *w in

initial

> clusters is not unprecedented, and since loss is anyway more

likely than

> a creation of *w _ex nihilo_, there are good reasons for regarding
> *k^worh2- as the original form.
>
> The Albano-Romanian (not to say Dacian)
> semantic shift 'magpie' > 'crow' is a local affair, just

like 'magpie' >

> 'myna' in India.

and the Greek 'raven' _korax_.

Can we not also include Latin corvus, which looks like k^worh2 + wo-
or k^wor + wo- ? I'm not sure about the k-r-n- words, though.

Richard.