[tied] Possible connection between "ermine" and "harm"?

--- "C. Darwin Goranson" <cdog_squirrel@...>
wrote:

> *(p)k^órmos 'grief, shame'

> sórom "shame", Avestani fšar&ma- "shame", and
> Khotanese ks.är- (from *fšar-) "be ashamed".

I think it's more likely that pk^ / pk etc become fk^
word-initially and undergo metathesis to k^f then f>s.





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