Re: Hercynian (again)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>
> > If a root is actually a coincidence, then we have even more than one

root.

>
> Roots do seem to be spontaneously created, e.g. 'crash' and 'cuckoo'

in English.

>

But even if a root has an ultimate phonosymbolic or onomatopoeic origin,
this doesn't prevent it from having a history, i.e. an etymology.