Re: Ford -furta- fare

All very interesting, but nobody answered my original question
which was (should have been): These two word mean the same, but
according to our sacred knowledge of linguistics they are not
related (as haben/habeo). Usually these pairs are seen as tests
of linguistic orthodoxy, a kind of linguistic parallel to the
English teacher's split infinitives and dangling prepositions.

But the real reason was something I found in Hermann Møller, back
from, I think 1906. Trying to find a way to relate IE and AA, he
came up with something he called alternate forms in IE (which means,
in a single language there would be pairs like habeo/capio).

If anyone is interested (after several "vade retro, satanas", of
course) I could dig it up next time I'm in the library.

Torsten