From: Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
Message: 68671
Date: 2012-03-01
> 2012/3/1, Brian M. Scott <bm.brian@...>:Or do You think that there's no connection between crash and crack?
>> At 5:34:14 PM on Wednesday, February 29, 2012,
>> Bhrihskwobhloukstroy wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>
>>
> If crash is of Middle English origin, how do You explain the
> corresponding words in other languages?
>