Re: Hercynian (again)

At 5:34:14 PM on Wednesday, February 29, 2012,
Bhrihskwobhloukstroy wrote:

> Yet it's quite curious that we find crash 'to fall with a
> noise' apparently with the very *-sk- inchoative suffix
> suffix and the root of crack 'to resound', Dutch kraken,
> but Old High German krahhon with expected -hh-, Armenian
> krkač̣ 'to make noise' again with /k/ = Germanic /k/ and
> Lithuanian girgiždė́ti 'to creak', Old Indic gárjati
> 'roars'. It really looks like a PIE *grog'-sk'oh2

It really looks like a Middle English echoic formation,
parallel to <clash> and sharing a sound-symbolic final
element with <dash>, <smash>, <splash>, etc.

Brian