Re: Substrate in Scandinavia

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

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> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> > Check
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> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/30336
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/32699
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/30335
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/41690
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/41738
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> > Torsten
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> pratt- "trick" sticks out as interesting; I'm thinking
> it has more to do with "clever", i.e. English pretty
> originally meant something like "clever, charming,
> etc."
> Then there's Dutch pratt "to speak" and English
> prattle "babble" --are these somehow related?

DEO
"prate (old, dial.) "talk, converde"; MDa, Nw. id. Sw. prata; loan
from MLG praten, corr. Dutch, MEngl. praten. Most like onomatopoieic,
cf. MHG braten "converse"."

Gmc p-, side form b-; typical of Kuhn's NWBlock words. Cf Engl.
blather, Da. pladder "twaddle".


Torsten