Re: topar vs. tocar

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
> http://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/toque
>
> Toque < tocca < Langobard to:h
> Same as German Tuch ?
>

Tuch "cloth"; my Ordbog says the corresponding Gmc, root of unknown
origin. Cf. Austronesian tapa "beaten cloth" (Tongan), check in the
Austronesian group.


Torsten