Dmitry Ivanov wrote:
> Does anybody have an idea why the Indonesian word for "bucket" - ember -
> is
> so close to the Gipsy word for "bucket" - embra - ?
> (In Hindi it's differrent.)
> Another interesting coincidence I am wondering about is the Finnish and
> the
> Indonesian words for "turkey cock" - kalkkuna and kalkun correspondingly.
>
Indonesian surely got them both from Dutch: emmer and kalkoen [kalkun]-- Du.
"kalkoen" looks kind-of foreign, I wonder if it's via Turkish or perhaps
Arabic. Finnish I think more likely borrows from German or Swedish-- does
"[kalkun]" or some such occur in those langs.?
(But IIRC the turkey despite its name is a New World creature....what's
Nahuatl??)