Please if you could help me
with the possible meaning of the PIE suffix -so
ceafă nuca, cervice (cf.
alb. qafë idem),
Dear Marius,
Regarding "Romanian ceafã 'nape' <-> Alb
qafë 'id.' " It is a loan word from Arabic "Qafa" meaning the
back of the neck. Most probably via a
Turkish source. See Arabic definition below:
Therefore, logically, it cannot
be included in a hypothetical PIE reconstruction.
Regards
Ishinan
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I try to explain
Romanian ceafã 'nape' <-> Alb qafë 'id.' as PAlb *kep- sa < PIE
*kep-so where *kep seems to have the meaning 'head' and -so seems to indicate
somehow 'a location nearby the head' but I'm not
sure about its
nuance.
Thanks a lot for some similar examples reflecting (the
meaning of) *-so
Marius
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