prat(t) (but not Siouan)
Koontz John E
John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Fri Aug 6 16:05:34 UTC 2004
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, ROOD DAVID S wrote:
> 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 have the impression that native sources of p in German are rare. Does
*/__r preserve PIE *p?
> I've been wondering whether "prattle" is a pejorative diminutive
> of this word. There aren't very many of those in English.
I think Bob Rankin once suggested scat :: skittle, cf. shit. (I don't
think sk in skittle could be native English, however.)
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