sparrow

From: tgpedersen
Message: 37414
Date: 2005-04-27

Gamkrelidze/Ivanov on sparrows:

Gothic sparwa
Hesych sparásios
Epic Greek psé:r

Suddenly Latin 'passer' makes more sense. Does that mean the root
started with ps- ? I think Georgiev assigned all Greek words with ps-
and ks- to a substrate language.


Torsten