Re: big-mouth 'brbljiv' or crazy 'brljiv' Milosevic

From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 33833
Date: 2004-08-23

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
> <a_konushevci@...> wrote:
> > In the Tribunal against Milosevic many have translated, probably
> by
> > mistake, big-mouth Milosevic, instead of <brbljiv> 'talkative'
> with
> > <brljiv> 'mad, crazy'.
> > I made this vorschalg just for fun, for I am much more interested
> in
> > the meaning of the adjective <brljiv> 'anger, crazy, mad' in
South-
> > Slavic and Alb. <bërlyket> 'to make sharp horns, to bellow from
> > anger', <bërlivet> 'to get crazy'.
> > I wonder could these words can be related to PIE root *bherg-`to
> > break', extended in suffix –il (cf. Lat. fragilis `breakable')
> > through metathesis g – l > l – g?
> > It's quite interesting that English synonym <burst> is also
> closely
> > related to Alb. <sh-përthej> `to burst' (*st > Alb. th, like *zd
>
> > Alb. dh).
>
>
> Here's a Vorschlag for a cognate: German 'brüllen' "roar, bellow".
>
> Torsten
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Thanks a lot, it seems that you find true cognate, about which I
wonder too much. In Duden's (7) "Herkunfstwörterbuch" (2001) I can't
find this verb, so I doubt could it be of IE origin.

Konushevci