Re: Beheaded Accipiter

On Aug 18, 4:28 pm, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dušan Vukotić wrote:
Latin platalea is a water bird and it kept the sound /l/ that is lost
in Slavic patka (from platka; Serb. plutati to float, plutalo an
afloat object; Russ. плот/plot raft). If you are intelligent enough
you will now be able to see why and how are words poleteti (fly; Russ.
полететь/poletet), plutati (float; Russ. плавать) related to ptica
(bird) and patka (duck).

Only in the sense that "intelligent" means "easily leaping to
conclusions based on the kind of phonetic innuendo that convinces Dusan,
as though that's all there were to it".

As for real intelligence, how much do you need not to leap to the
conclusion that the name of a bird that doesn't float on the water comes
from a word meaning "float"? Given that the bird's salient feature is
its bill (which is, after all, what the bird is named for in English:
"spoonbill"), it seems more likely that the source would be Greek πλατύς
= "flat".

But the "basic" word for the "flying animals" is bird. The English
word "bird" is related to Serbian "perad" (fowl, poultry); i.e. it is
related to "feather" (Serb. pero, perje; Gr. πτερόν wing, feather). I
explained earlier how the Serbian noun pero (feather) and the verb
polet-eti (fly) were born from the same ur-basis (poletarac nestling -
poultry; poult - pile chicken; cf. Serb. piletina chicken meat).

DV
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  • Re: Beheaded Accipiter
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  • Re: Beheaded Accipiter
    ... in Slavic patka (from platka; ... conclusion that the name of a bird that doesn't float on the water comes ... poultry; poult - pile chicken; cf. Serb. ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Re: Beheaded Accipiter
    ... in Slavic patka (from platka; ... conclusion that the name of a bird that doesn't float on the water comes ... poultry; poult - pile chicken; cf. Serb. ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Re: Beheaded Accipiter
    ... in Slavic patka (from platka; ... conclusion that the name of a bird that doesn't float on the water comes ... poultry; poult - pile chicken; cf. Serb. ...
    (sci.lang)
  • Re: Beheaded Accipiter
    ... in Slavic patka (from platka; ... conclusion that the name of a bird that doesn't float on the water comes ... poultry; poult - pile chicken; cf. Serb. ...
    (sci.lang)