Glukhar

Fri Oct 11 14:37:00 UTC 2013

No, sorry, you got it backwards.  The bird is named this way because it doesn't hear anything when it sings during the spring period ("kak glukhar' na toku"), and hunters can simply walk up and clobber it.  So the word is used to describe people that don't hear anything besides themselves.

Vadim

Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:25:15 +0100
From: anne_mariedevlin at HOTMAIL.COM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Glukhar
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I just assumed it had something to do with deafness and that the bird was so named  due to the fact that it had a deafening cry. I've no idea what a glukhar'/ capercaille sounds like. 
AM

Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:06:42 +0000
From: thysentinel at HOTMAIL.COM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Glukhar
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The only allusion I can come up with for "glukhar" is "unsolvable crime" in detective slang (akin to "cold case").  It stems from "glukho" (loosely meaning "bleak," "deadbeat," etc.).

Vadim
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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:06:01 +0100
From: anne_mariedevlin at HOTMAIL.COM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Modern-day bards?
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Fascinating Robert.  I have never been a frequent user of either the word glukhar' or capercaille, but I made the association between 'caillie' and 'cailleach' (Irish Gaelic for witch) and not 'coille' (forest) and presumed that both the Russian and anglicised Gaelic words must have referred to a horrible sound the bird possibly makes.  I would never have associated caper with 'capall' (modern Irish Gaelic for horse), though.  
Does the word glukhar' have any positive or negative associations in Russian?  To me as a non-native speaker, it seems negative, but a music venue has chosen it as its name ...
AM

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