Re: Charudes - Croatians

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> Another attempt at the name:
> Wortschatz der germanischen Spracheinheit
> 'krabban m. Krebs, Krabbe.
> an. krabbi m. Krabbe;
> ags. crabba m. (engl. crab),
> nnd. krabbe.
> Dazu
> ahd. chrepaz(o), crebiz,
> mhd. krebez, krebz,
> nhd. Krebs, mnd. krevet, kreft.
> Aus krabita(n).
> Vgl. von der Nebenwurzel (s)kar(a)b
> gr. kárabos Krebs, Käfer und
> *skarabaios (lat. scarabaeus) Käfer.'
>
> If this is NWBlock, *xraBi-þ- would have been the corresponding Germanic word. Calling scale armor clad people lobsters makes sense.
>

On the one hand, we've got:
Germanic *krabb- 'crab'
Semitic *?\a-k'rab- 'scorpion'
Greek kárabos 'a k. of bettle; crayfish, lobster; small boat'
Latin ca:rabus 'lobster; small small wicker boat decked with hide'
Latin scarabeus 'bettle'

Which in my own model would be related to Greek skorpí-os, Latin scorpi-o: 'scorpion', both coming from different Neolithic IE paleo-varieties. IMHO this etymology would be related to the exoskeleton of the these animals.