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F R O M T H E D I C T I O N A R Y O F I N D O - E U R O P E A N R O O T S (kap- to grasp) The fires in the hills lie still & cold. A root comes to Indo-Iranian, spreads to Anatolian, Armenian, Hellenic. Crawls to Albanian which becomes Tosk. Sprawls under to BaltoSlavic, Celtic, Italic, Germanic. Makes haven, caught, captured, makes cater, conceive, deceive. Forms accept, municipal. Is parent to participate, receptive, receive. Crawls under like a revolution. The fires in the earth lie cold & still. Handle. Shows up in heddle, used for weaving. It is autumn for humans, kap kap, tap tap. They sit in assemblies that curve like big ears. The root is the fate of the word. Heavy, from hafiga, from kap, to grasp. The root gives rise to recipe, to recover, unbuckles its fate strap, makes occupy; this continues— 7 8 ...

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