[tied] Re: to buy-revised

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

> > It's *ko- 'intensive/iterative prefix' + *lupiti 'peel' (< Balto-
> > Slavic *l(a)up- 'peel' < PIE *leup- 'id.')
> >
> > Sergei
>
>
> is thes prefix *ko" to be seen as cognate of Latin "con"?

I'm not sure. A possible Latin cognate of Slavic *kU ~ *ko~(-) 'to
(gether)' is <cum>, but we are probably dealing with a prefix of
pronominal origin (related to *kU 'who, what') here.

Sergei