<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>Again, the Rumanian term "curcan" confirms lack of concensus on the part of the Latin-speaking peoples on a name for "turkey." Interesting.</DIV>
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<DIV>Dave<BR><BR><B><I>"Alfred W. Tüting" <ti@fa-kuan.muc.de></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">'wild turkey', in Lakota is given as _wagleksun_ [wagle'ks^uN] - do you <BR>have any idea what it means?<BR><BR>BTW, in German it's 'Truthahn' (maybe from mndd 'droten'- to threaten), <BR>earlier it was called 'indianischer Hahn' (ref. to West Indies) but also <BR>'welscher' or 'tuerkischer Hahn'.<BR><BR>In Romanian, it is called 'curcan' [kurka'n] and in Hungarian 'pulyka <BR>(kakas)' [puj'kã kã'kãsh]. I don't know why :(<BR><BR><BR>Alfred<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com