Controversial idea

The last ten years I have been questioning the almost holy grail of
etymology, that romans gave away words to other folks but rarely took
words in return. The words I don´t find reasonable are: ceapan (Old
english for buy), line and mill. The first word is very questionable
because of the assumed relation of a roman wine dealer, caupo, and the
germanic words which means so much more than just dealing with wine.
The other two words can be found elsewhere in the indoeuropean world.
Still, no scholar sees those words as coming from latin. I call this
the equivalent of folk etymology and it´s wishful thinking to me.


Carl