blat-

blat-
    blat-
    English meaning: to chat
    Deutsche Übersetzung: “plappern under likewise Schallbedeutungen” as well as ähnliche Schallworte schwer bestimmbaren Alters
    Material: Lat. blaterō, -üre “ chatter, babble, empty gossip; also from shout of the camel, ram, frog”, blatiō, -īre “babble, prattle “; M.N.Ger. plad(d)eren “chat, prate”, Mod.N.Ger. pladdern ‘splash, besprinkle “, Swe. pladder “ loose gossip”, Dan. bladre ‘spread lose gossip “, older also ‘splash”, lacking of consonant shift in onomatopoeic word. Similar to onomatopoeic words are N.Ger. plapperen (Ger. plappern), M.H.G. plappen and blappen, O.H.G.blabizōn “babble” and M.N.Ger. plūderen “babble” (M.H.G. plūdern , Ger. plaudern). compare with partly similar meaning bhlē̆ d- “ to bubble up, chat”, bhel- ‘sound” and bal-, bal-bal- under baba- (e.g. Lith. blebénti with Ger. plappern similar formation).
    References: WP. II 120, WH. I 109.

Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.

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