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

>'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.

Couldn't such words have been extant in all Germanic idioms
at the same time? (OTOH, cf. German Müller, grün vs. North
German Möller, grön; so, brøl(l)- doesn't seem unusual at
all to me.)

>That and the uncertain vowel length would support your
>assumption of a non-IE origin, in my opinion.
>
>Torsten

According to Germ. linguists, <brüllen> could/should be
seen in connection with <prahlen> & <prallen> + <prellen>.
(I don't know whether <plärren> < Mittelhochdeutsch
<blerren> could also be taken into consideration.)

George