Talk:կապար

initial կ- (k-)
In the author treats the variation kV / V in Greek, namely in, 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  / or 🇨🇬 or somewhere else regularly? You might stumble upon more examples, or maybe you already remember. In these two cases of Near-Eastern culture words, /  and, 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)
 * , 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 ~ . --Vahag (talk) 12:24, 29 December 2019 (UTC)