Re: [tied] *kap-

From: P&G
Message: 40899
Date: 2005-09-30

> *ko:p- < IE *go:b-. Do you know more roots with two plain voiced stops?

All the "forbidden" combinations are found in a number of roots. Many of
them can be explained away as lall-woerter, or onomatopoeia, but some remain
which aren't. It is right to say that these combinations are rare, but
wrong to say that they cannot exist.

Peter