--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
> As to the counterexamples to the counterexamples you give above:
> Slav. ablUko, but Baltic *a:bo:l-, with a vowel between *b and the
resonant.
Not necessarily the case here, but just to warn you:
as is commonly known, (at least East) Baltic has developed an
extensive analogical innovational ablaut, mocking that which
continues that of PIE, but often being indeed an innovation. I listed
one of the examples some time ago
(
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/14226), but the
exmples can be multiplied nearly ad infinitum, and from the
pessimistic point of view one actually never knows whether he deals
with a direct reflex of something PIE or just with analogical
surrogate.
In Lithuanian we have _obuoly~s_,_óbuolas_,_óbulas_,_óbalas_ 'apple',
_obeli`s_ (G. _obelie~s_) 'apple-tree', and the ablaut variations
here can hardly reflect PIE ones -- some of them must be innovative,
and there's no guarantee it's the _obuoly~s_/_óbuolas_ which are the
older ones, and, considering Old Prussian _woble_ 'apple', one can
suspect _all_ the Lithuanian forms to be innovative (the model for
analogy would be inherited alternations l~ul, ul~uol, l~al/el
operating in other words).
Sergei