Re: [tied] IE cockroach

On 2007-04-03 14:23, Joao S. Lopes wrote:

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

I think the European 'roaches (except some small and inconspicuous
"wild" genera like Ectobius) are synanthropic arrivals from the
subtropical zone of Asia. I doubt if the IEs knew them as domestic pests.

Piotr