On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 15:42:16 -0500, Roman Turovsky wrote > No one knows. > The only thing known is that the combination of consonants TRB > is absent in all European languages, except for the Slavic ones.
Where did you get this from? Just because I was drinking one while your mail came in: Teber (also: Träber, Trester) [1]. An acloholic beverage distilled from the leftover grapes after the juces have been pressed out (it's more famous under it's italian name: Grappa). Then I was thinking that you probably meant the combination of T<some vowel(s)>RB - but even for that there is lat. turbare (I guess you won't accept my neighbours Audi-Turbo ... :-) Cheers, Ralf Mattes [1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treber > In Ukrainian TORBA means a sack, and TORBYNA means, well, a smaller sack. > RT To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
