Re: Slavic hawk-word

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> ... And a new idea. Could it be that the Latin form was originally

*o:cupiter, *o:cipiter (cf. o:cior) or the like, remodelled folk-
etymologically after accipio 'take'?

>

If I recall, you've reproduced a classical explanation from Ernout-
Meillet's etymolological dictionary of Latin.

Sergei