Re: Beheaded Accipiter

Dušan Vukotić wrote:
On Aug 18, 7:02 pm, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dušan Vukotić wrote:
On Aug 18, 5:02 pm, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dušan Vukotić wrote:
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).
Everyone assertion in this last paragraph of yours is presented without
any supporting evidence or reasoning, and, to boot, none of it has
anything to do with eith "platalea" or my remarks about it anyway. Add
this to your list of non-sequitur hat tricks.
Do not be silly, I told you everything about the basic bird names!
In response to a remark by me that had nothing to do with basic bird
names. Do you not know what "non sequitur" means?

What about flotila (flota, fleet) and Russian plot (raft)? All I am
talking about is following the clear-cut logic and reason.

Assuming, just because you imagine it to be true, that word remotely related to flying and that begins with "f" or "p" is related to every other such word, is not clear-cut logic and reason, it's an exercise in self-delusion.

If you
cannot grasp it, it is your problem.

I "cannot grasp it" in the same sense that I cannot grasp that the moon is made of Swiss cheese.

If you cannot grasp that a bunch of unrelated things aren't related just because you say so, and that your inexhaustible lists of words prove nothing, it is your problem.
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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. ...
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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
    ... conclusion that the name of a bird that doesn't float on the water comes ... poultry; poult - pile chicken; cf. Serb. ... I "cannot grasp it" in the same sense that I cannot grasp that the moon ...
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