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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:
> I want to ask what is the PIE source of German Kralle 'claw' (because
> here seems that we have an extension in l)?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Marius
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The German and IE etymological dictionaries at:
http://ehl.santafe.edu/cgi-bin/main.cgi
give:
Proto-Germanic: *krawil=, *krauwo:n-, etc.
Meaning: scratch
Old Frisian: kra:wia `krauen', (up)krawa `zich (naar boven) ombuigen'
Old Saxon: krauwil `Gabel mit krallenfo"rmigen Zinken, Kralle Zacken'
Middle Dutch: crauwen, crouwen `krauwen, krabben'
Dutch: krauwen `krabben'; krauwel m.
Middle Low German: krouwel; krauwen
Old High German: kreuwil, krouwil (um 1000) `Haken, Kratze, Kralle,
Gabel mit gebogenen Zacken'; krouwo:n (11.Jh.), krouwen (8.Jh.) `kratzen'
Middle High German: krouwen, krowen, kra"wen wk. 'kratzen; juckend
kratzen; kitzeln'; kro"uwel, krewel, kreul st. m. 'kra"uel, gabel mit
hakenfo"rmigen spitzen; klaue, kralle'
German: Kra"uel `Haken, Kratze, Kralle'; krauen
and:
Proto-IE: *g(')rAw@-
Meaning: to scratch
Old Greek: gru":^ ,ein wenig, das Schwarze unterm Nagel'
Germanic: *kraw-il=, *krauw-o:- vb., etc.
Dan