Now, aside from obvious considerations of its expressive nature, might the Northern English "Black-Jack" bear any relation to any Romance derivation of Blatta? It did get to us through ships that might have been in these ports!
Ben
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Date : 03 February 2001 14:41:38
Subject : [tied] PIE cockroaches
Is there any PIE word for cockroach?>
>Let's start the list...
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>Latin BLATTA
>Greek SILPHE:, TILPHE:
>English COCKROACH
>Germanic ?
>Slavic ?
>Celtic ?
>Sanskrit ?
>Avestan ?
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