"occupy"/"behave" are such a weird double-double Not a single shared letter, not a lot of meaning overlap. Both from *h₁epi + *kap- Old English "behabban": "to surround, to contain, to understand, to restrain" does make it easier to see the semantic chain
what was the meaning of 'hep' in the upper left ?
Oh, yeah! It's a preposition: "on, at, near, right behind". In addition to Latin "ob": "towards, against, up against" (e.g. oblique, obvious, etc.) and English "by" ("close by", "beset"), we also get it as Greek "epi-": "on, on top of, after" (e.g. "epilogue", "epidermis")
thank you
this is how i found out that Germanic prefix is related to those other ones 🤯
Yeah, that's definitely a big part of what obscures (beshades) the relationship!
how does *h₁epi > op? seems kind of weird with that vowel and that laryngeal doesn't it
Oh yeah, that should be from an o-grade form of *h₁epi. Also seen in things like Greek ὄπισθεν
oh yeah makes sense