re [tied] hawk

Dog supplanting hound? [The first example that came to mind.]

At 7:03 this morning Anthony Appleyard wrote:

>On 2006-10-14 10:26, Anthony Appleyard wrote:
> >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.