> to a development *kom- > ga- is why we fail to see the same thing
in other
> preverbs, such as ver- (*fer-).
>
But don't we? At least in Dutch, that 'v' is a voiced f, and since
the Germans spell it with 'v', not 'f', it is tempting to assume they
once pronounced it the same way (why else would they need a 'w'?).