> There might be a connection between those twain things, or, of > course, then again, there mightn't. Be it as it may, I predicted > that a couple of weeks ago or so, in a forum(?) of Kauppalehti > (kauppa
The word 'kauppa' (store, commerce, etc.) seems to be an Indo-Germanic loan word, cf. German 'kaufen', Islandic 'kaupthing', Swedish 'köpa' [sic!] and stuff.
