[Lexicog] Turkey

[Rankin, Robert L]

Oddly enough, the Turkish word for 'turkey' is "hindi", again suggesting that East Indian origin.
 
Bob

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 > 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