ĝā̆b-

    ĝā̆b-

    English meaning: to show, to watch

    Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘schauen, ausschauen after”?

    Material: It derived, if one might place with Zupitza Gutt. 194 O.Ice. kōpa (pÞ) “ stare, gawk”, O.E. cǣ pan “ observe, look out after, provide for, protect “, changing through ablaut O.E. capian up “look up to”, asächs. upcapen “ stand out, project, reach upward “, M.L.G. kapen “gawk, see, show”, M.H.G. kaffen ds., O.H.G. (with intensive gemination) kapfēn “ see, show, peer “ (out of it back formation O.H.G. kapf “place, one looks out from, summit “) and O.H.G. ūfkepfen “look up” to Russ. zabota “ care, worry “, zabotitь śa “ are worried, are concerned “. Everything quite uncertain. The beginning of a root, with voiced-nonaspirated initial and final sound, has from the start little likelyhood for itself (compare Meillet Introduction7 173 f.).

    References: WP. I 530.