Re: Child

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

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> From: "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
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> We have also Romanian copil /kopil/ 'child' <-> Albanian kopil 'id'
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> Based on the known rules the single possible reconstructed
> PAlb./Dacian? form is
> *kwa:pil-
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> Any ideea?
>
> Marius
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> I've come to think that caballus, Kapal, kobyla, etc
> are from *ka?_pul 'bad foal'.
> This Romanian word also fits in the mould : ka?-pul- 'bad child'.
> Are Children that bad over there ?
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> I don't think the metathesis *k_p_l < *k_l_p
>
> Arnaud

Yes 'they are' ==> the original meaning was 'bastard'/'servant'

Marius