João Simões Lopes Filho wrote:
> The word is "bruscus" in dialectal Latin, that is analyzed as
> **gWrodH-sko-, akin to batrakhos (<*brathakos < *gWRdH-nko-) and
> German krote Some scholars link bruscus to Spanish bruja/Portuguese
> bruxa "witch"
>
> Joao SL
bruscus:has un unknown etymology in Latin.
Some other schloars see this word as a contamination of ru:scum with
gallorom. *bru:cus.
On another hand, an Latin "u" remains "u" in Rom as Miguel said.In so
far the Rom. word could not derive from Latin. even if DEX gives here a
hypotetic Latin *brosca
The germanic forms are too not from latin but have the same fonetic (
beside b=f) with Rom. word. and has the same semantism.How it will be,
if the analyse *gWhrodh-sko- is ok, the rom. Word derives from a
language which has made from the PIE *gW a "b".
If not, then maybe someone will find a form *bhro-sko for explaing this.