Re: [tied] *kap-

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <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.
>
> Haps! is Danish too.

Ehret reconstructs a couple PAA roots that look quite similar with
similar semantics. The are *k'ab (k' is an ejective) and *gaf. In
pre-Proto-Semitic we have for the first *k'-b. I don't think a Semitic
borrowing is out of the question.