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Re: Pablo is back, Job, Argentina, Relay, Lord of the Rings

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Monday, January 14, 2002, 10:09
At 14:07 2002-01-09 +0100, daniel andreasson wrote:
>Lars Mathiesen wrote: > > > However, Tolkien will have been well aware that Norse > > hrafn would have come from an Indo-European stem very > > like *kraban-. > >Really? Cool. Well, he has been stealing other stuff, so >it's quite likely he took this as well. Or perhaps even >more likely a combination of PIE and onomatopoeia. > >||| daniel
Clearly onomatopoetic IMO, tho of course the Norse *kraban- means 'raven' while the Eldarin *krapan- means 'crow'. The problem I see is that **if** Sindarin _craban_ were descended from Eldarin, the Eldarin form must have had medial -p-, which doesn't strike me as very onomatopoetic! Thus _craban_ as an onomatopoetic word must have been newly created at the Sindarin stage of the language. BTW I wonder if English _crow_ might not go back to an Old English *cra:wa... /BP 8^)> -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:bpX@netg.se (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A h-ammen ledin i phith! \ \ __ ____ ____ _____________ ____ __ __ __ / / \ \/___ \\__ \ /___ _____/\ \\__ \\ \ \ \\ \ / / / / / / / \ / /Melroch\ \_/ // / / // / / / / /___/ /_ / /\ \ / /Melarokko\_ // /__/ // /__/ / /_________//_/ \_\/ /Eowine __ / / \___/\_\\___/\_\ Gwaedhvenn Angeliniel\ \______/ /a/ /_h-adar Merthol naun ~~~~~~~~~Kuinondil~~~\________/~~\__/~~~Noolendur~~~~~~ || Lenda lenda pellalenda pellatellenda kuivie aiya! || "A coincidence, as we say in Middle-Earth" (JRR Tolkien)