Note 122 — Chapter IV · NOMADISM AND AGRICULTURE.
R. (Russell) Martineau translation
Bergmann, Les peuples primitifs de la race de Jafète, Colmar 1853, pp. 42, 45, 52, 53 apud Renan, Hist. gén. d. langues sém., p. 39. It is interesting that the ancients explained the hard-bested name of the Pelasgians from this point of view, making Πελασγοί equivalent to πελαργοί = storks (Strabo, V. 313; Falconer, ed. Kramer, V. 2, § 4). Compare Pott, Etymologische Forschungen, 1836, II. 527.