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

> > > 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
> ************
> 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.
>

'Ordbog over det danske sprog' has 'brøle', with long
vowel, 'probably from German'. The word is used of cows, too. The
editors assume influence from 'bøle' id. which is found in Swedish
too, unlike brøle/brüllen. 'brølle' is found dialectally.
Further: Norw dial. 'braula', Shetland 'brøl'

The geographical spread makes a loan from German unlikely. That and
the uncertain vowel length would support your assumption of a non-IE
origin, in my opinion.

Torsten