arrancar

[Rick Mc Callister]

Corominas/Coromines sounds like he had a bit of a split personality
but this does happen when we switch languages

	How does <crank> fit in here? Or does it?
	Semantically it might fit providing it's from Romance
	Watkins's chart in his Dict. of IE Roots
matches Germanic /hw/ with Latin /qu/
	But can we have /QUr-/ & /hwr/?

	But then Watkins goes and says that <wrench> is from IE *wer- and
he leaves out <branch>. So Silent Cal is no help.

	And then there's renco

	BTW: what else is known about Sorothaptic? And the Sorothapts?

[ moderator snip ]

>Coromines, in his Catalan Etymological Dictionary, rejects the
>suggested Germanic etymology he had proposed in DECH, preferring a
>non-Celtic but IE etymon (sorota`ptic o li'gur [Sorothaptic or
>Ligurian]), citing Lith, rin~kti [pick, collect], paranka` [gleaning],
>OPruss ra~nk-twei [steal], isrankeis [let go!, deliver!], Germ wrankjan
>[> Eng wrench], BSl *wranka: [hand, leg]. This or a similar root is the
>source by a different route of Romance BRANCA [leg, paw], [branch].

>The verb certainly extends to Oc. and NW Italian dialects, and less
>surely to the rest of Italy. Coromines's discussion of the etymology
>extends to 4 columns, where in part he's arguing that this word's
>distribution is typical of the IE dialect-type he calls Sorothaptic
>(lexically and geographically between Celt, BSl, Illyrian-Venetic and
>Germanic), though he agrees that variation in treatment of *wr- is
>problematic.

>Max