Hawk /siiiii/ !

[Gordon Whittaker]

What "bird names in Sumerian are the same as in the present day"?! What
could you be thinking of? What possible source could validate this comment?
Please provide some specifics, if you have any.

Gordon Whittaker
Institut f|r Ethnologie
Theaterplatz 15
37073 Gvttingen
Germany

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Von: ECOLING at aol.com <ECOLING at aol.com>
An: Indo-European at xkl.com <Indo-European at xkl.com>
Datum: 21 January 2000 05:10
Betreff: Hawk /siiiii/ !

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>For *kukurru*, *miaou*, *mu*, *me*, the case is a rather easy one.
>For many other bird names equally so (though it is not to be sneezed
>at that some bird names were the same in Sumerian as in the present
>day, there can also be historical influences at work simultaneously).

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