Talk:կապար

initial կ- (k-)

@Vahagn Petrosyan In Reece, Steve (2009) “Junctural Metanalysis in Homer Owing to Movable and Final Kappa”, in Homer's Winged Words: The Evolution of Early Greek Epic Diction in the Light of Oral Theory, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 73 the author treats the variation kV / V in Greek, namely in ἀπήνη (apḗnē), as the result of rendering the glottal stop of “Eastern loan words“, which means for me Semitic where words start with a glottal stop and not a vowel. For Beekes that variation is of course evidence of “Pre-Greek” origin – did this happen in Colchis / Iberia or Hurro-Urartian or somewhere else regularly? You might stumble upon more examples, or maybe you already remember. In these two cases of Near-Eastern culture words, ἀπήνη (apḗnē) / καπά̄νᾱ (kapá̄nā) and կապար (kapar), the connection with known words is yet strong in spite of the anlaut variation k/∅. Eventually it might be explained. Fay Freak (talk) 13:01, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

@Fay Freak, this is interesting. I do not remember any discussion of the kV ~ V alternation in the Armenian context. The only other example I can think of is ոզնի (ozni) ~ կոզնի (kozni). --Vahag (talk) 12:24, 29 December 2019 (UTC)