Re: Hercynian (again)

From: Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
Message: 68656
Date: 2012-02-29

Yet it's quite curious that we find crash 'to fall with a noise'
apparently with the very *-sk- inchoative suffix suffix and the root
of crack 'to resound', Dutch kraken, but Old High German krahhon with
expected -hh-, Armenian krkač̣ 'to make noise' again with /k/ =
Germanic /k/ and Lithuanian girgiždė́ti 'to creak', Old Indic gárjati
'roars'. It really looks like a PIE *grog'-sk'oh2

2012/2/29, Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@...>:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
> <bhrihstlobhrouzghdhroy@...> wrote:
>
>> If a root is actually a coincidence, then we have even more than one root.
>
> Roots do seem to be spontaneously created, e.g. 'crash' and 'cuckoo' in
> English.
>
> Richard.
>
>