Re: [tied] *kap-

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <G&P@...> wrote:

> > *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.
>

In other words, what should explained is not their non-existence, but
their sparse existence.


Torsten