prat(t)
"Alfred W. Tüting"
ti at fa-kuan.muc.de
Fri Aug 6 20:22:02 UTC 2004
>> 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 tend to agree with your questioning this, yet this is what Kluge
(Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, de Gruyter, Berlin
1995) - as kind of an obiter dictum - literally gives:
"(...) Offenbar urverwandtes l. suffragium n. 'Abstimmung, Beifall'
zeigt, dass von 'zustimmender Lärm, Akklamation' auszugehen ist. (...)"
Alfred
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