Re: Substrate in Scandinavia

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
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> > --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> > > Check
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http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/30336

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http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/32699

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http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/30335

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http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/41690

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http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/41738

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> > > Torsten
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> > pratt- "trick" sticks out as interesting; I'm
> thinking
> > it has more to do with "clever", i.e. English
> pretty
> > originally meant something like "clever, charming,
> > etc."
> > Then there's Dutch pratt "to speak" and English
> > prattle "babble" --are these somehow related?
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> DEO
> "prate (old, dial.) "talk, converde"; MDa, Nw. id.
> Sw. prata; loan
> from MLG praten, corr. Dutch, MEngl. praten. Most
> like onomatopoieic,
> cf. MHG braten "converse"."
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> Gmc p-, side form b-; typical of Kuhn's NWBlock
> words. Cf Engl.
> blather, Da. pladder "twaddle".
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> Torsten
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Do you think they're related with /r/ <=> /l/ or are
both just expressive words?

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