From: Rick McCallister
Message: 55728
Date: 2008-03-22
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister____________________________________________________________________________________
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> >
> > DRAE has both tocar "to touch" and topar(se) "to
> bump
> > into" as onomatopoeic < *tok-, *top-
> > Topar has what look like obvious cognate in tuft,
> > stuff, stupa and Torsten's long list
> > I'm wondering if tocar comes from some /p/ > /kw/
> > process and was borrowed by Romance
> > The meanings and forms are similar enough to
> suggest
> > they are related
> > Then there's Spanish toque "an added touch",
> > originally "an adornment (to the hat)", which is
> > usually seen as some kind of substrate word
> > Any ideas?
>
> I could post all of Kuhn's article 'Fremder t-Anlaut
> im Germanischen'
> in German. Are you sure you want that?
>
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> Torsten
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