Tuesday, November 18, 2008
FARFALOGIA LIKE "ΕΤΥΜΟΛΟΓΙΑ"
>FARFARA - Obviously derived from
> feather-brain FARFAR (‘to spin’).
turk. farfara (fickle, braggart) < `ar. farfara(t) (to flutter,
normally rendered in turkish ferfere)
FARFALAK - a top, FARFAR (‘to spin’) [GASK, Wakhi
> a whipping-top (in 345]
> the district of
> Sofia, etc.) FARFALAG (‘a top’) [LRS, Lezgin
> 333]
turk. ferferek (whirligig) < pers. ferfereg (probably based on
`ar. farfara (to flutter)
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