Re: Musical instruments and music in Proto-Indo-European

From: C. Darwin Goranson
Message: 48777
Date: 2007-05-29

> ...If it's the case that the Latin represents an attestation of a
> parallel root, the Georgian word "kankula" could either be a bizarre
> coincidence or a strikingly pristine cognate to a reconstructed *kan-
> k^wl-eh2. However, I'm going to need to look into where this Georgian
> word was found - I'm having some trouble locating it online, even
> when using the Mxedruli alphabet...
>
I've checked online, and in a German-Old Georgian and German-Georgian
dictionary. "Kankula" is nowhere to be found. Unless I find proof
otherwise, I'm suspecting "Georgian 'kankula'" to be made-up or
erroneous.