gazzetta, газета - от итал. gazza [гацца] - «сорока», та, что «новости разносит».

З.Ы. не от никогда не найденной монеты с якобы изображением сороки, за которую якобы можно было купить газету в Венеции - это байка, разнесенная Фасмером.

Ср. gossip [госсип] (англ.) - сплетня, сплетничать; N.B. Британские этимологи выводят gossip из [якобы] [Spoiler (click to open)]God + ( Read more... )

по-русски: https://new-etymology.livejournal.com/533127.html


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New 2022 update to replace in around 360 pages the existing excessively long "The Veneti Language..." which is close to 1000 pages and some say with too many side topics and repetition and hard to read. It continues to document my improvement of the results in the deciphering and reconstruction of the ancient Venetic Language that is presented in ( Read more... )

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In Finniс mythology, the one who accompanies into the Kingdom of the Dead, to the underground river Toonela, is Toonekurg - the heron, the stork - Est. kurg, kure, Fin. kurki, Lapp. guorga, Nenets χǝŕo, Selkup. k͔ara, Matori körüh - “the marsh crane, heron, stork” - which corresponds to the Eng. heron, Welsh garan, Old French hairon, Dan. heireIt ( Read more... )

'KANGAROO (n.) 1770, used by Capt. Cook and botanist Joseph Banks, supposedly an aboriginal word from northeast Queensland, Australia, often SAID TO BE UNKNOWN NOW IN ANY NATIVE LANGUAGE ( Read more... )

(not only 'Indo-Germanic'):


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