Re: [tied] Rom. tsarca - Lit. s^árka

On 04-12-02 19:54, alex wrote:

>>> Why?
>
>
> because of the meaning. A crow is not a magpie. If one want's to link them
> via "black" that is something else.

They are both corvids, and rather similar ones (especially if the crow
is the East European light-grey-and-black variety. Names may "jump" from
species to similar species. E.g. American "robins", "jays" and "elk" are
not the same creatures as European robins, jays and elk.

> BTW Piotr, ever thought about the Dacian city called Tsierna/Dzierna ? Hard
> to try to derive it from *kWernah? A city called "black bird"? Too
> speculative in my opinion.

Who said the city was called Black Bird? I didn't.

Piotr