Re: More on dump etc.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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> I thought dive, dump etc were securely within Schrijver's language
> of geminates,

cf his article in
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/62677

> (Pokorny says *dheu- with extensions the base attested
> in IIr and Greek). Then I find this:
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> Prellwitz
> Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Griechischen Sprache
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> 'bápto: dive in (Hom.),
> baphé dyeing (Aesch.),
> bapheús dyer,
> búptein: baptízein (Hes.),
> dúpto: (Ap. Rh.),
> dúpte:s (Kallimach.) diver;
> biptázo: (Sophron, Epich.) :
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> ai. gabhi:rá-s tief, gambha(n) n. depth, abyss;
> an. kvefja dive in, sink down,
> ags. cvabbe swamp,
> ostpreuß. Quebbe,
> mhd. erqueben suffocate.
> root: gebho dive in.
> Fick I4, 34 sees it also in géphura.
> Vgl. Bechtel Hauptprobleme 114.
> Scheftelowitz BB. 29, 15f. 38 adds
> armen. cov sea, lake (*gebhu-),
> covanam dive under.'
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> This stumps me.
> Are those bap-, bup-, dup- (-t- is from -j-) related?
> If so how?
>

Torsten