Reconstruction talk:Proto-Indo-European/h₃ep-

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Is this connected to "hops" ("seed cones") ? — This unsigned comment was added by Lu Soci (talk • contribs).

No. "h₃" is the notation for a laryngeal, which probably wasn't an "h" and the "p" becomes "f" in Germanic due to Grimm's law, giving Proto-Germanic *aflą. Besides which, the meaning is totally different. The "h" in "hops would likely come from Proto-Indo-European "k" and "p" from PIE "b"- if it's from PIE at all. Chuck Entz (talk) 16:57, 7 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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