From: Francisco Antonio Doria
Message: 51465
Date: 2008-01-19
On 2008-01-18 08:05, ualarauans wrote:
> --- In cybalist@... s.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@ ...>
> wrote:
>> Any truth to the notion that the word is from French
>> pirogue < Spanish piragua < some Native American word
>> --due to its shape?
>
> More likely it's cognate to Lith. purai^ pl. "winter crops",
> Gr. PUROS, PUROI "wheat". Proto-Slavic *pyrogU.
But it's *pirogU, not *pyrogU. I prefer Vasmer's explanation (from *pirU
'feast, breakfast').
Piotr
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