From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 55702
Date: 2008-03-22
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From: Rick McCallister
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] hoopoe
Okay, so maybe you two are on to something. Can you
take it to AA? What do you have for "tuft" in other
Nostratic (in the broad sense) lgs? But are you seeing
the hoopoe call as fortuitous? Do all hoopoes make
that call? Excuse my ignorance of hoopoe lore or
epopology.
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I heard and saw hoopoes in vine-yards
in southern France when I was a boy,
they do make that sound.
Now
my point of view is the real origin
is "tuft of hair or feathers"
because dz disappears in PIE
dzo?p became o?p
which became perceived as
onomatopeic.
And Abubila in Spanish
does not make sense if
it's *only* onomatopeic
It makes sense
if you start with *dzo?p
> H2°?p > ap-
u:pupa / apup
are the remnants
of an alternating root
dzo?p / dz°?p-
Arnaud
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