From: tgpedersen
Message: 46121
Date: 2006-09-19
>A thing that has puzzled me is Dutch heuvel, German Hügel "hill".
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@> wrote:
> > Elsewhere he gives a
> > few more examples, e.g WGmc. *hufra- 'hump' (OHG hofar) from *xuxra-
> > (related to *xaux- 'high', according to him).
>
> Not very probable in view of Lith. kuprà (4,2), Latv. kuprs 'hump',
> unless they are borrowed from Germanic, which I see no reason to
> assume.
>