Talk:quaccola

Attestation
I now know where this is from. CGL 3, 567, 50, where a) it is written “larix ·i· coacola” b) it turns out it does not even mean a bird; it is said in Silvana Rocca Iulii Obsequentis lexicon, Genua 1978, page 439, following one J. André (not gonna look into a copy to find out more from here – though there is a copy in my ends the Chinese Communist Party virus has made library visits extravagant) that, while one has done a conjectured reading of instead of the actual  or one reads the first word as  =, the ascribed meaning is to be eliminated in favor of “pitch, resin”, the second word being the well known , while the first is. Liddell & Scott again write that  =  according to some gloss. Fay Freak (talk) 16:31, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I have no problem with this living at instead. The Germanic looks like it was originally, , then reborrowed later as . --  21:45, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I went and actually changed the etymology to reflect the above. -- 23:50, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
 * OK, 87 edits later, I think, , and all look pretty good. --  23:38, 10 August 2020 (UTC)