capus

He added that he had been told by Robert Valbringue, who lately passed that way in his return from Africa, that a sixth kind was to fly hither out of hand, which he called capus-hawks, more grum, vinegar-faced, brain-sick, froward, and loathsome than any kind whatsoever in the whole island.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

He added that he had been told by Robert Valbringue, who lately passed that way in his return from Africa, that a sixth kind was to fly hither out of hand, which he called capus-hawks, more grum, vinegar-faced, brain-sick, froward, and loathsome than any kind whatsoever in the whole island.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

He added that he had been told by Robert Valbringue, who lately passed that way in his return from Africa, that a sixth kind was to fly hither out of hand, which he called capus-hawks, more grum, vinegar-faced, brain-sick, froward, and loathsome than any kind whatsoever in the whole island.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

Any Etruscan glosses made by classical authors are also assumed a priori to be 100% correct by far too many people, along with random claims about curious words or names being somehow Etruscan in origin based on a subtle mix of whim and desperation rather than firm proof e.g. *φersuna for Latin persona, *capus for Greek gloss kapus 'hawk', etc.

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Any Etruscan glosses made by classical authors are also assumed a priori to be 100% correct by far too many people, along with random claims about curious words or names being somehow Etruscan in origin based on a subtle mix of whim and desperation rather than firm proof e.g. *φersuna for Latin persona, *capus for Greek gloss kapus 'hawk', etc.

Perhaps we need an Etruscan "anti-dictionary" 2007

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