Re: Gorgyra and Tartaros - g/t dialectal Pre-Greek

From: tigeradolf
Message: 71173
Date: 2013-04-06

I think Albanian "gërthas" (shout, yell) can be a cognate too. <th> renders <k'> so it can be reconstructed as Proto-Albanian *garkata

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "ufnkex" <guestuser9357@...> wrote:
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> >korkorugmos remembers onomatopoeic verbs like Portuguese gargalhar
> >"to laugh loudly" and gargarejar "to gargle".
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> NeoGreek gargara, gargariso
> German gurgeln (& Gurgel)
> Latin gurgulio (& gurgatio + gurgitare).
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> BTW, Mongolians and some neighboring Turkic peoples call /karkhiraa/,
> /khargyraa/, /kargyraa/ ("growling") some styles of /höömei/ [xöömej],
> i.e. the throat chanting/singing = overtone singing.
>
> *
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> Is Engl. /harrumph/ onomatopoietic? Any link to the above?
>
> George
>