Re: hoopoe

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

>
> Yes, Torsten, thank you.
>
> It may be a better cognate for D(w)b, 'hoopoe', than *tap-.
> I looked but could not find anything like <stuppa> in Pokorny.
> Is it there and I missed it?

I don't know. I got it from Ernout-Meillet
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/54315

> With Db (*Dwb), PIE *teup- would work much more satisfactorily.

I don't think you should be driving these words all the way to the
proto-languages. It's obviously a cultural loan having to do with ships.


Torsten