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Sep. 3rd, 2009|11:31 am |
*barkaz noun masc.: Swedish bark ‘stubborn and unfriendly man’. Identical with Armenian bark ‘harsh, sharp’, Old Irish borb ‘foolish, silly’, Latvian bargs ‘stern, grim’. Bezzenberger BB XXVI 167 (to OE beorcan ‘to make a sharp explosive sound, to bark’); Pokorny I 138–139.
[A Handbook of Germanic Etymology by Vladimir Orel, 2003] |
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