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The Latin terms haruspex and haruspicina are from an archaic word, hīra = "entrails, intestines" (cognate with hernia = "protruding viscera" and hira = "empty gut"; PIE *ǵʰer-) and from the root spec-= "to watch, observe". The Greek ἡπατοσκοπία hēpatoskōpia is from hēpar = "liver" and skop-= "to examine".
The following conventions are used: Cognates are in general given in the oldest well-documented language of each family, although forms in modern languages are given for families in which the older stages of the languages are poorly documented or do not differ significantly from the modern languages.
Chicken giblet, here the gizzard, liver and heart are wrapped in intestine, shown in a gulai (Nusantara-style curry) in Minangkabau cuisine, Indonesia. Giblets / ˈ dʒ ɪ b l ɪ t s / is a culinary term for the edible offal of a fowl, typically including the heart, gizzard, liver, and other organs.
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Chicken dishes frequently include the gizzard, heart and liver of the bird, and Goan sausage choris or chouriço contains spicy, tangy pork pickled in vinegar and the local liquor feni before being cased in pig intestines. It is a popular Goan food regularly consumed during the monsoons when fish is scarce.
In Greek mythology, the gods punished Prometheus for revealing fire to humans by chaining him to a rock where a vulture (or an eagle) would peck out his liver, which would regenerate overnight (the liver is the only human internal organ that actually can regenerate itself to a significant extent).
The basic noun formed from the root means "liver", "interior", "soul" in most Semitic languages. [1] The Akkadian word for liver is spelled with the sumerogram 𒂂, transliterated kabtu; the Ugaritic cognate is spelled 𐎋𐎁𐎄 kbd. There is a wide range of uses for kbd as a noun among the Semitic languages.
The poet Cratinus calls the chicken "the Persian alarm". In Aristophanes's comedy The Birds (414 BC) a chicken is called "the Median bird", which points to an introduction from the East. Pictures of chickens are found on Greek red figure and black-figure pottery. In Ancient Greece, chickens were still rare and were rather prestigious food for ...