Re: Rom. tsarca - Lit. s^árka

From: tgpedersen
Message: 35393
Date: 2004-12-08

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> You'll find the whole sordid story of the sallow sooty bird here:
> http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/swl.html

In case someone wonders what the connection
between "sun", "fire", "warm", "soot", "grey-black" and "dirty" are,
consider the environment of a house with an indoor fire in which
hanging a ham up under the smoke-hole or wind-eye (Sw. vind "attic")
was enough to make smoked ham.

Torsten