Re: [tied] Re: Crows and Garlands

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 25197
Date: 2003-08-20

20-08-03 02:09, Richard Wordingham wrote:

> 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.

It's hard to be sure about anything here, especially in view of all that
possible onomatopoeic reshaping. I've always thought of <corvus> as
somehow related to <rook> (OE hro:c) a la Pokorny, but those bird-names
evidently need some rethinking.

Piotr