anunk - nupa

[Jan Ullrich]

> Alfred W. Tütin
> I didn't regard it as an aspiration here either, but thought of
> [anuN'k-h^a-saN], raising the problem of what is meant by [h^a'].
> The (common?) translation by "white on both ends/sides" doesn't seem
to
> be too convincing given that the bird's head and neck being white on
top
> and all around (and not only "on both sides/ends"). Can it be that
_ha_
> [h^a'] is some - maybe abbreviated - form I'm too awkward to retrieve
in
> dictionaries?


anuNkhasaN
anuNkha - 'on both sides'
saN - 'whitish'


This refers to the fact that the head and the tail of the eagle are
white.


Jan Ullrich