Re[2]: Res: [tied] Catalan Bruixa = witch

At 4:37:45 PM on Tuesday, November 28, 2006, Daniel J.
Milton wrote:

[...]

> I've found some references to 'bruscus' "frog". It appears
> to be medieval rather than classical Latin, which raises
> the question of borrowing from some other language.

> Nevertheless, an interesting etymology in Starostin's I.E.
> Etymology site:

Rewritten to be readable by those of us who don't think that
HTML belongs in e-mail:

> Proto-IE: *gWredh-

> Nostratic etymology:

> Meaning: toad, frog

[...]

> Old Greek: bátrakho-s m., dial. bótrakho-s, brótakho-s,
> pl. bratákhô.s (Hes.), býrthakos, pl. brýtikoi (Hes),
> {bathýrako-s} `Frosch'

Here I've replaced <ü> in the original with <y> and used <ô.>
for o-macron-with-underdot.

> Germanic: *krad-ôn- f.; *krid-ôn- f.; *krud-(i)ôn- f.

> Latin: bruscus `ranae genus', ruscus `Kröte'

> References: WP I 698 f

Brian