From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 20562
Date: 2003-03-30
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Subject: Re: [tied] Macedonian x Greek
> Piotr, which should be other IE cognates for Greek 'kephalos' and which is the assumed root for "kephalos"? Do the other IE cognates means always "head"?
English <gable> (PGmc. *gablaz, also *gebl-an- > Goth. gibla 'pinnacle' and *gablo:, which has come to mean 'fork' e.g. in Modern German) is a possible cognate. The semantics is plausible, cf. OHG gebal '[crown of the] head'). The root is *gHebH- (or *g^HebH-), and the word originally meant 'top, vertex, angular point'. The meaning 'head' was figurative.
Piotr