[tied] Re: to buy-revised

For me kupiti "to buy" and kupati "to wash" are just deverbatives of
the same root. Its not only my opinion, so think also other
respectfull linguist, but, cause you see it obviously a loan via
Latin, let it be. Magister dixit!

Konushevci

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> --- 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