prat(t) (but not Siouan)

[ROOD DAVID S]

>
>  obviously cognate with l. suffragium n. 'Abstimmung, Beifall'
> (vote, applause/acclamation) i.e. 'zustimmender Lärm'
> (assenting/approving clamour).

	Not at all obvious to me.  Germanic /p/ should correspond to Latin
/b/, not /f/ (slippery, lubricus), and where's the Latin equivalent of the
/t/??  I know my Indo-European is rusty, but this doesn't seem at all
right.

	I've been wondering whether "prattle" is a pejorative diminutive
of this word.  There aren't very many of those in English.

>
David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
295 UCB
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USA
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