Re: [tied] IE cockroach

I remember being told that Spanish cucaracha is from
Arabic. If so, what is the Arabic (or Maghrebi) form?
Then there is French cafard < ?


--- "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:

> Is there any PIE word for "cockroach" ?
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> Greek silphe:/tilphe: (akin to Latin talpa "mole"?)
> Latin blatta
> Portuguese carocha/Spanish cucaracha (>cockroach)
> How is it in Germanic, Celtic, Balto-Slavic?
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> What's the distribuition of the cockroach around
> Eurasia?
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> Joao SL
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