Re: [TIED] IE apple

>>gLeN: Finally, the solution seems sufficient to explain why *-ml- becomes

*-bl- instead of **-mpl- since the laryngeal would serve as a devoicing
element for the *m, producing *p: (later *b). So *xemxlos becomes *xep:los
(later *ablos).

>I've find a tendency to shift ml > mbl, mr > mbr (Spanish _hombre_ 'man')

from Pre-Romance/Latin *homerus?) in natlangs, so that makes a lot of sense.
Daniel A. Wier

I thought hombre, hambre, hembra, costumbre etc. came from Latin homin-,
famin-, femin-, costumin-.

Marc Verhaegen
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