From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 19109
Date: 2003-02-23
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From: alex_lycos <altamix@...>
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Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 2:45 PM
Subject: [tied] frog
> frog - O.E. frogga, a dim. of frox, forsc, frosc "frog," from P.Gmc.
> *fruska-z.
> actual forms:
> German: frosch
> Norwegian: frosk
> Albanian : bretk ( masculine bretk, feminine bretkosë)
> Romanian : brosc- ( feminine 'broasca', masculine 'broscoi')
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> The Latin form was "rana" ( but there is "ruscus"= toad, with an unclear
> etymology), the Greek word is "bathrakos"
> It seems that the originar form was with "br-" since the Germanic "f" is
> originated more later and a Germanic "f" should be improbable to give an
> "b" in Greek, Albanian and Romanian.
> I am not sure if Greek "bathrakos" is a derived from the same root.
> If the Greek word is from the same root, how are to explain the
> differences here ?
> germ:frosc
> alb: bretk
> rom: brosc
> greek:bathracos
> The Greek form has an "-ath-" between "b" and "r"; the Albanian has an
> "-etk" instead of an "-osc" like in Germanic and Romanian.
> Which should be the root in this case?
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