Gruit Grus: The Indo-European Names of the Crane

Preprint of an article to appear in Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia 18 (2013). Do not quote without the author's permission.The purpose of this article is to show that the variety and irregularity of the Indo-European 'crane' words is apparent rather than actual, and that their derivational history is in fact quite simple. In brief, they can be reduced to only a couple of related PIE lexemes, rather than a whole constellation of 'dialectal' forms