Re: [tied] *kap-

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 40743
Date: 2005-09-27

tgpedersen wrote:

>>I don't retract my suggestion that *xopiti is a loan.
>
>
> The question is from where. Kuhn has examples of NWBlock words with
> only partial application of Grimm.

No need of that. Early Slavic /p/ was regularly used as a substitute for
Germanic /f/, so one would expect *xopiti for Germanic *xafjan.

> Haps! is Danish too.

Yeah, I would expect it to be a rather natural iconic thing.

Piotr