From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 19119
Date: 2003-02-23
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Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] frog
> 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"
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> > Joao SL
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> bruscus:has un unknown etymology in Latin.
> Some other schloars see this word as a contamination of ru:scum with
> gallorom. *bru:cus.
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> 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.
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