ID 069 • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√BRṬM
to rave, talk irrationally – WehrCowan1979.
1887 For barṭam‑, Wahrmund gives, apart from ‘stottern’ a number of values now obsolete: †‘vor Zorn anschwellen; finster blicken; (trans.) zum Zorn reizen; sehr dunkel sein (Nacht)’. Cf. also II †tabarṭam‑ ‘zornig werden über eine Rede’, †barṭam ‘Stotterer’, and †barṭamaẗ ‘Anschwellen vor Zorn’. †barṭamaẗ is also a variant of †barṭanaẗ ‘e. Spiel’ – Wahrmund1887.
No cognates given in DRS.
▪ Does burṭūm‑ (see DERIV below) really belong to barṭam‑ ? DRS‑ lists the two as one item – as is done in this entry too.
▪ Unrelated to EgAr ↗barṭamān, var. baṭramān‑ ‘glass jar’ (which is a metathetic variant of ↗marṭabān).
► burṭūm, var. barṭūm, n., trunk of an elephant: related to barṭam‑ ?
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