Reconstruction talk:Proto-Slavic/botьjanъ

Plausibility of Turkic borrowing
, according to Горох.ua, the origin of 🇨🇬 is not certain enough and neither is its relation to *botьjanъ, so I feel reluctant to mention a borrowing from Turk. *boŕ for the proto-Slavic form. In principle, I don't see how Early Slavs would have borrowed it from Turkic şaz-dialects or why they would have chosen the word for "gray" to describe it. If you wish, though, feel free to mention it.

PS The parallel with 🇨🇬 is indeed somewhat compelling, but not quite sufficient to conclude that all Slavic words for 'stork' need to be borrowings. The primary word for stork in OCS was 🇨🇬, which looks as a quite old Germanic borrowing (if not native) => early Slavs definitely had knowledge of the bird. Безименен 16:30, 1 March 2020 (UTC)