Re: [tied] Re: NEuropean IE for apple

pielewe wrote:

> (2) The reflex of *ablUko appears not to be attested in OCS (at least
> according to the one-volume Czech-Russian co-production of 1994), but
> if it were, one would not be surprised to find the variation
> indicated, which is attested for instance in the 'lamb' word, but, to
> be fair, not in all words in which one would be inclined to expect it.

Sorry, I was writing without the full battery of reference books to
hand. Rick Derksen's online database of inherited lexicon in Slavic does
cite OCS ablUko without an asterisk (he does the same in his Baltic
database); Pokorny has "abg." ablUko, jablUko.

> Slavists tend somewhat to regard the subject of prothetic vowels as
> unsuitable for polite conversation because it is so messy.

You mean prothetic glides, don't you? Prothetic vowels are messy in
Greek and Armenian :-).

Piotr