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FourWinds Mar 17, 2006 01:25:07
Replying to PeterH

torrunn
thunder, Irish toran, a great noise, Early Irish torand, thunder, Welsh tarann, Cornish taran, tonitruum: *toranno-s; Greek @Gtóros, sound; Lithuanian tàrti, say. Gaulish Taranis, the Gaulish Jove or Thor, and Gaelic tàirneanach show an a grade of the root.

from http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MB2/mb39.html#torrunn

Interestingly <i>durrunda</i> is Basque for a loud noise, which sounds a lot like thunder. Durrunda/Thunda - the D/T/Th thing is always interesting.

Take a look at this mad page and search for durrunda: http://member.melbpc.org.au/~tmajlath/shb3.html

F FourWinds
FourWinds Mar 17, 2006 01:32:35
Replying to FourWinds

Disclaimer on the home page of the site with that mad page above-

(These pages contain similar words in Hungarian and Afro-Asiatic, Altaic, Austro-Asiatic, Basque, Caucasian, Dravidian, Etruscan, Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, Sumerian etc., and NO claim of a relationship is made between any of them.)