Strawberries [was: [tied] IE *p and *b]

On 2007-12-10 00:22, Rick McCallister wrote:

> I was thinking of straw-berry as related to German
> Stroh "straw" --but the Latin form, unfortunately has
> /g/ not /k/. But I imagine the English form is a folk
> etymology.

Ger. Stroh has no etymological velar at the end. The <h> is just a
length-marker. The OHG word was <stro:> = OE stre:aw. Even if you assume
that <strawberry> has nothing to do with 'straw' and derives from
something with initial *sr-, not *str-, Germanic *-aw- doesn't match
Lat. -ag-.

Piotr