Re: Sapir-Whorf and threaded fasteners

Dušan Vukotic <dusan.vukotic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mar 7, 4:34 am, "Heidi Graw" <h...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Serb/Croatian <sraf> ...s with that tiny v on top of it."

Šraf is a German loan word in Serbian; the same is with Czech
šroub :-)

That's right, they are just relatively recent borrowings.

There are also native Slavic words like "vrut", "vrutka", etc.
Czech "vrut" usually refers to a self-tapping or thread
cutting screw. AFAIR, Slovak doesn't make use of any
Ge loans and "vrut" can be any type of a screw.


I would be sounding that out as "shruff" or "shrahf". I'm not sure how one
would actually say it because I don't speak Serbian.

Schraff (from schraufe)

I suggested PIE:

"steb(h)-to wind turn, from the Greek <strephein>"

στροβιλίζομαι, στρεφειν (turn) _ I would say that this word has been
subjected to a haevy process of metathesis. :-)

DV


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