From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 55696
Date: 2008-03-22
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From: Rick McCallister
Perhaps the words for tuft of hair, pompon and tutf of
tree --if they are related-- are from the word for
hoopoe, which definitely has a tuft in the picture.
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It works in the other direction.
Compare
Berber here Kabyle has
ic^ibib "hoopoe"
as^ebbub "(head )hair"
tas^ebbubt "tree summit"
tac^c^apupt "pompon"
Arabic
za?b "tuft of hair"
no derivative meaning "hoopoe"
hudhud "hoopoe"
How do you explain Arabic
if you start the meaning "hoopoe" ?
You have to start with "tuft of hair"
Arnaud
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