From: afyangh
Message: 51075
Date: 2008-01-01
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
I think it _may_ occur in the word for 'head'
> in Latin and Germanic. The idea is that a reduplicated structure like
> *ká-kp-ut-, thematised in pre-Germanic (*ka-kp-ut-ó-m), lost the *k in
> the ancestor of Lat. caput, while the Germanic development was
*kakputó-
> > *kauputó- > *xauBuða-. The original meaning would have been
something
> like 'potsherd' (cf. the parallel semantic development of Lat. testa or
> Slavic *c^erpU),
> Piotr
>
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Arnaud :
The meaning "pot" = face, head for a root like *k-p
also exists in Egyptian : x-f : face / pot.
This development looks very ancient,
it can be inherited and older than PIE.
Arnaud
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