Re: ficken

At 1:42:33 PM on Friday, January 18, 2008, Patrick Ryan
wrote:

> Since we are apparently on this topic, I suppose a few
> words about German 'ficken' / English 'fuck' are in order.

> I think an easy way into the study is noticing PIE
> *(s)pingo-, 'sparrow, finch', which I will interpret as
> 'pecker' (incidentally a slang English word for 'penis')
> for reasons explained below.

To account for <fuck> and Du. <vokken> 'to breed cattle' I
prefer Miguel's suggestion, *peug^-.

Brian