Baklan-A black pelican? |
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EnglishVersion:
From the pelican-like birds, Baklan generally means a big water bird, cormorant/kormoran in many Turkish dialects.
It is a Turkish word. (>Russian баклан)
Stachowski says, 'Turkic baklan may be a corrupted form of the Greek Pelican'.
'Pelican is a pre-Greek (not a Greek) word,' says Pre-Greek expert Beekes.
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We are in a dead end street.
Is it an older Turkic word that the Greeks took in dark ages?
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Uzunbacak Adem
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