[tied] Re: to buy-revised

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 20421
Date: 2003-03-27

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...> wrote:

> Well, which is the etymology of *kolupiti?
> the Romanian "ciupi" is given as " see the bg."Cupja" and
scr. "Cupati".
>

It's *ko- 'intensive/iterative prefix' + *lupiti 'peel' (< Balto-
Slavic *l(a)up- 'peel' < PIE *leup- 'id.').

Sergei