Note 114 — Chapter IV · ONOMATOPŒIA.[103]
Reading edition
Renan, p. 139, quoting Adelung, Mithrid. i. p. xiv. Grimm, Über die Namen des Donners. (Berlin, 1855.) If the words “tonitru,” “donner,” &c., be not originally onomatopœian, as some assert (who derive them from tan, Gr. τείνειν), they became so from a feeling of the need that they should be.—Heyse, s. 93.