Re: [tied] English /p/ in "up" and "open"

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

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:43:05 +0100, Rasmus Underbjerg
> > Pinnerup <pinnerup@...> wrote:
> >
> > >The issue is the /p/ in the English word "up" (and in "open") -

it

> > >allegedly goes back to PIE *upo-, but by way of Grimm's Law it
> should
> > >have become /f/ - and I can't seem to find any answer to why it
> > >hasn't.
> >

>
> The other 'water preverb/pre-/postposition' is *w-d-,

Both 'ab'/'(s)ub' and *ud- take suffix -s (in Latin and Germanic).

And the third in that company is *(a/u)per- "across" (from *ap-/*up-
).


Torsten