Re: [tied] *kap-

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> tgpedersen wrote:
>
>>> I don't retract my suggestion that *xopiti is a loan.
>>
>>
>> The question is from where. Kuhn has examples of NWBlock words with
>> only partial application of Grimm.
>
> No need of that. Early Slavic /p/ was regularly used as a substitute
> for Germanic /f/, so one would expect *xopiti for Germanic *xafjan.
>
>> Haps! is Danish too.
>
> Yeah, I would expect it to be a rather natural iconic thing.
>
> Piotr

Borrowings do not form, as a rule, rich word families, especially with
miscellaneous meanings. Slavic xopiti / xapati does, e.g. Old Polish chopic'
(catch, adhere, cling), chapac', ochapiac', pochopic', pochopiac',
wschopic', ochopien', ochopny, pochop, pochopny (survived till today,
'hasty, inconsiderate, eager, ready'). So, this word does not look like a
loanword.

Grzegorz J.





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