Re: sparrow

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001" <st-george@...> wrote:

>
> josimo70 wrote:
>
> >*s-per-
> >
> >Latin parus[titmouse]
> >Latinparra [sea eagle]=Umbrian parfa(<pareza:]
> >Grk sporgilos, spergoulos, psar [sterling]
> >Old Prussian spurglis [sparrow],spergla-
> >OHG sperche
>
> and sparo "Sperling"
> MHG spare, along with spaz(e) (today: Spatz)
> (-z diminutival, e.g. as Heinz & Hinz
> for Heinrich, Kunz for K(u)onrad)
>
> >Celtic sprawos [sterling, jackdaw]*
> >Germanic sparwaz [sparrow]
>
> modern German Sperling (syn. of Spatz), group: Passerinae.
>

Thanks you for all the many nice words. Now the question was: is it
PIE *sp- or PIE *ps- ?

Torsten