[LMB] AKICOT:L Bambi in Spanish & Italian

[D. Reed]

Pigeon is french, Squab is Swedish, I think. But
pigeons/doves were usually raised by lords medievally
(introduced by the Normans) and restricted, since they
ate grain from the fields. If I recall correctly,
anyway.
> 
> Elvi, I don't buy "poultry" in the grocery store, I
> buy "chicken". But 
> the poultry farmer calls the particular bird I'm
> going to eat a 
> "pullet", defined as a young female bird who hasn't
> started laying yet. 
> So Little Egret's point is at least partially
> correct, the Norman-French 
> word went to the peasant in this case, and the
> Anglo-Saxon one went to 
> the wealthy ... perhaps it's because chickens are of
> not so great 
> antiquity in Western Europe as the others? I seem to
> remember that they 
> were introduced from the Middle East during the
> latter half of the Roman 
> Empire. Where I don't follow him is with those other
> meat animals, 
> unless he means that one word has pretty much
> crowded out the other 
> entirely. (The young domestic pigeon usually eaten
> is called "squab", 
> which language is that from?)
> 
> 
> 
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