Cute Coot of Baikka Beel: 'And yet he was as bald as a coot'

In Bangla the Coot was once called ‘Jal-Kukkut’ meaning ‘water-chicken’; seemingly, after the ancient Vedic word ‘Kukkut’, which meant ‘chicken’. We do not know if the Coot’s name ‘Coote’ in Old...