From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 55660
Date: 2008-03-22
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From: Rick McCallister
hoopoe, right? A kind of bird. That one I knew off the
top of my head. Although I don't know what one looks
like.
I'd guess the Kabyle form comes from North African
Romance --which supposedly disappeared c. 1500-1600.
OTOH, perhaps the word was orginally from ancient
Berber. Look at the bird's range and see if it's
present in Greece and Italy.
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Rick,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoopoe
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huppe_fasci%C3%A9e
Quite unexpectedly,
the French version has more explanations !!
but the English one has more pictures.
Arnaud
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