Abstract
1. Sanskrit cataka-, cucculus melanoleucus. AN INDO-EUROPEAN ROOT KE (I), to cry out, call, summon, is attested in Lat. cijre (ky-i) and in ac-cire (K9I) ; cf. with d-extension K9ID in Gothic haitan, to call. This is the root of cataka(Ki) and of KWT1AXOS (K6), chattering, twittering: Lat. cot-urnix, quail or call-bird (for the posterius cf. O'PvL). The call-note of the quail is made a matter of special note, e. g. in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. No weight is to be given to cocturnix in MSS. This spelling was due to monkish reminiscence of the quails of Exodus, and belonged to the time when writers of Latin manuscripts pronounced a word like octo as otto.
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