plab-

    plab-

    English meaning: to babble, etc..

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “plappern under likewise Schallvorstellungen”?

    Material: O.Ir. labar “redselig”, Welsh llafar “language, sound”, O.Corn. lauar ‘sermo”, Bret. lavar “word”, Ir. amlabar “ dumb “, Welsh aflafar, O.Corn. aflauar “infans”, O.Ir. labraid, rel. labrathar ‘speaks”, Welsh llafaru “talk, speak”, Maybe Alb. llaf “word, speech”, llafos “talk”, llafazan “talkative”. Corn. lauaraf “I rede”; Celt. FlN Labarü “ Labor “ (Bavaria); perhaps to N.Ger. M.Eng. flappen “hit, klatschen, babble, chatter “, Eng. flap “hit”; Maybe Illyr. TN Labeatae (Labeates) “talkative people, babblers “? : Celt. FlN Labarü “ Labor “ in the kind of the onomatopoeic words Schallnachahmung jedenfalls different is Lat. plōrüre “clamüre (aLat.); loud weep, cry”. Maybe truncated Alb. *lápati, llap “chat, talk, speak”, llaf “word, speech” [see above Root lep-1 : (expr. Root)]

    References: WP. II 93.