Re: [tied] fear ( it was hades)

From: alex_lycos
Message: 20822
Date: 2003-04-07

Daniel J. Milton wrote:
> My Buck's "Synonyms" has:
> Rum. 'fricã' fr. Grk. 'phrike' "shivering, shuddering", esp. with
> fear. 'Phrisso' "be rough, bristle up, ripple, shiver."
> I think Brian's comment below applies to this word, but I haven't
> been able to find it in Pokorny. Leiden has an on-line Greek
> etymological dictionary which I find impossible to use. If anybody
> has mastered it, I'd like to know how
> I've quoted Buck's "A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the
> Principal Indo-European Languages" a number of times on Cybalist.
> It's fifty years old and maybe out-of-date (and rather old-fashioned
> to begin with), but it has a vast amount of information. The
> paperback edition for $40 is one of the purchases I"m most pleased
> with
> Dan

The question is , what speaks for the word "phrike" that this one is a
New Greek word and not a borrowed one from Albanian or Romanian? Which
are the arguments for being indeed a Greek word?