Re: Cluster kp- in Germanic

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 51079
Date: 2008-01-01

There is _no_ Egyptian xf, 'face, pot'.
 
Patrick
 
----- Original Message -----
From: afyangh
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Cluster kp- in Germanic

--- In cybalist@... s.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
>
===
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
======