From: Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
Message: 68669
Date: 2012-03-01
> At 5:34:14 PM on Wednesday, February 29, 2012,If crash is of Middle English origin, how do You explain the
> Bhrihskwobhloukstroy wrote:
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>> 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
>
> It really looks like a Middle English echoic formation,
> parallel to <clash> and sharing a sound-symbolic final
> element with <dash>, <smash>, <splash>, etc.
>
> Brian
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