From: Tavi
Message: 69810
Date: 2012-06-12
>AFAIK, Latin cuppa is a *Wanderwort* found in Basque kopa 'whetstone case', German Kopf 'head', NEC *gäp'e: 'a k. of vessel', etc.
> > You have no need to delete it; the root itself has vacillating
> > length of /u/ and, since it has many different enlargements (IEW
> > 588-592), it's almost evident that e.g. Czech kep etc. (I beg Your
> > pardon) < Proto-Slavic kÑpÑ (k"p") < PIE *kup-o-s, Old English, Middle
> > English hoppe, Latin cuppa (> Romance coppa) are based on â*keu- +
> > *-p- while <ku:pa-> is on â*keu- + *-H- * -p-
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> You are conflating two roots, *keuh{x}p- 'hollow, hole, cup, etc.' and *keuph1- 'pile, heap, hill, etc.' (Av. <kaofo:> 'mountain'). Lat. <cuppa> against <cu:pa> is to be explained like <Juppiter> from the voc. sg. *Ju:-piter, as a (Sabino-Latin) dialectism.
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