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Tokh. | akritär | wheel |
Tokh. | apskritas | circular |
Lith. | skrédi | to fly or run in circles |
Lith. | skraidyti, skraidayti | to fly here and there |
Lith. | skraidé, kregzdé | Swallow, 316 |
Sbc. | kruzniti | to fly in circles |
Sbc. | kriziç | pigeon, 255 (flies in circles in display) |
Slk. | kruzik | id. |
Czech | krauzák | id. |
Sbc. | krstariti | to cruise |
Sbc. | orao krstaš | eagle, vulture: from their habit of cruising, soaring |
in circles. From the same root arises the Anc.Greek chrysaetos, so written as a result of a misunderstanding, and wrongly translated by "golden eagle". Not one species of eagles is "golden". The "Golden" Eagle is black with a rufous, not golden, nape, a character moreover not observable in nature. The modern Greek stavráetos is a translation of this foreign word understood as "crossed, in the shape of a cross" instead of "cruising" |
Sbc. | golub krstar | pigeon, 254, 255 (see kriziç, above) |
Germ. | kreise | circle |
Anc.Eg. | kres | (borrowing) circle |
Franç. | croiser | to cruise (cf. Lith. skraidyti, above) |
Engl. | cross | to go through; crucible "a kind of vessel", French creuset, relates to creux "hollow", not to Lat. crux "cross" (as in Klein) |
Engl. | cruise | to travel about |