Re: [tied] Germanic P>+voice after u

So could *kaupos be related to the *kaup- root for
"merchant"? --i.e. a merchant who stands by a heap of
good, or is this too much of a semantic stretch?


--- stlatos <stlatos@...> wrote:

>
> In Germanic p>b after u and before any vowel.
> This is very early
> and distinguishes between p and pY (as I've
> described before). For
> example
> *kaupos > OCS kupU; *kaubos > *xaupaz > E heap.
>
> Since I've already said that both f and v existed
> in PIE and in most
> languages f>s and v>w in most positions it follows
> that if f>v as p>b
> in Germanic there will be a correspondence of Ger. w
> with non-Ger. s:
>
> *mufí:x 'fly' > Lat. musca; Greek mui^a; *muví:x >
> *muwi: / *muwy+
>
>
>

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