[Lexicog] Turkey

["Alfred W. Tüting"]

 > Waglesun (Turkey in Lakota)
Wa = noun marker; Gle[s’ka] = stripe; Sun = wing feathers. <<

Thought of this too, yet how do you get to the /k/ of [wa-gle-k-s^uN]??
 

 > While we're on the international theme, might as well add Russian 
"indyuk" for turkey, again apparently deriving from the word for India 
or Indian.<<


Maybe Kostya will englighten us - my very intuitive association with 
this is Hungarian 'tyúk' (chicken) -> ind+tyúk -> indyuk (???) 
(Hungarian has quite some slavic words incorporated that are somewhat 
hard to recognize as such.)
 
 > Again, the Rumanian term "curcan" confirms lack of concensus on the 
part of the Latin-speaking peoples on a name for "turkey."  Interesting.<<

Will have to look after it, but I'd guess that the word is a loan from 
Turkish (*kurkan?) - cf. Rum. 'tutun' from Turk. 'tütün' (tobacco) etc. etc.

Alfred