IE cockroach

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 48212
Date: 2007-04-03

Is there any PIE word for "cockroach" ?

Greek silphe:/tilphe: (akin to Latin talpa "mole"?)
Latin blatta
Portuguese carocha/Spanish cucaracha (>cockroach)
How is it in Germanic, Celtic, Balto-Slavic?

What's the distribuition of the cockroach around Eurasia?

Joao SL


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