[tied] Re: to buy-revised

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:

>> Of course they are unrelated, and the /u/ of the 'bathe' verb
>> reflects a nasal vowel (cf. Pol. ka,pac').

> ************
> According to You Alb. i shtrejtë "expensive, dear" and its nasal
> form i shtrenjtë with same meaning "expensive, dear" are not related.
> ************

Why erect a straw man in my place? Variation in Albanian is
irrelevant. We were discussing Slavic, not Albanian. Slavic *kupiti
'buy' is quite obviously a loan from Latin via early Germanic (<--
*kaupo:jan-, cf. Ger. kaufen), whereas *ko~pati 'bathe' cannot be so
analysed. There are no formal or semantic difficulties with the
etymology of *kupiti, so what's the whole fuss about?

Piotr