Re: [tied] Re: big-mouth 'brbljiv' or crazy 'brljiv' Milosevic

From: alex
Message: 33836
Date: 2004-08-23

Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
>> Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
>>>> Here's a Vorschlag for a cognate: German 'br�llen' "roar,
> bellow".
>>>>
>>>> Torsten
>>> ************
>>> Thanks a lot, it seems that you find true cognate, about which I
>>> wonder too much. In Duden's (7) "Herkunfstw�rterbuch" (2001) I
> can't
>>> find this verb, so I doubt could it be of IE origin.
>>>
>>> Konushevci
>>
>>
>> See Rom. "zb�rli" and its variant "zb�rli" with the same meaning (
> and other
>> meanings too) as "br�llen".
>> The etym. of Rom. word "zburli" is unknown.
>> Alex.
> ************
> I find also close related Rom. <zbura> 'to blow out' and Alb.
> <buritet> 'to roar, llow, bellow' a synonym of <b�rlyket> 'id.' and
> <b�rlivet> 'to get crazy'. German form <br�llen> looks to preserves
> much oldest form, because in Albanian it underwent the metathesis of
> liquids ll - u > u (�) - ll and regular change of intevocalic /ll/ >
> Alb. /l/.
> Problem is which is the common etymon and the root of these
> intransitive verbs as in German, as well as in Albanian and Romanian.
>
> Konushevci

I will sugest *bo:rll- with methatetic form in German and Albanian.
Interesting may be the verb "urla" which means too "br�llen", cf DEX < Lat.
"ululare".

Alex