From: Anthony Appleyard
Message: 46374
Date: 2006-10-16
> English "hawk", ... Finnish "haukka". Is "hawk" found in any IE
> language except Germanic? Did Germanic take it from a local
> Finno-Ugrian language that was spoken in south Scandinavia or
> Schleswig-Holstein area before the IE-speakers came?
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> Yes, in Slavic: Pol. kobuz, Russ. kóbec (< dimin. *kobIcI)
> 'sparrow-hawk', as if from *kAbHAug^os (*A = *o or *a), ...
It is to be wondered why Finno-Ugrian needed a new word for "hawk".
Birds of prey (goshawks in forest, gyrfalcons on tundra) would have
been familiar to FInno-Ugrian speakers before the IE-speakers spread.