Re: NEuropean IE for apple

From: tgpedersen
Message: 38039
Date: 2005-05-24

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
> What's the correct stem for apple in Northern IE languages? What can
be deduced ?
>
> OE aeppel = OHG apful < *Germ. appola-
> ON epli < *Germ. *aplijan? *apilan? <*abelon, *abelion ?
> Crimean Gothic apel < *?
> Old Irish ubull, Welsh afall, afal
> Old Slavic ablUko < *a:blu-ko-
> Lithuanian obuolas Latvian a:buols < *a:bo:los
> Lithuanian obelis < *a:belis, a:belyos
> OPrussian woble < *a:bl-
> Abella, city that was called "malifera" by Virgil.
>

Is the -ko of the Slavic words from PIE *-(i)ko? Doesn't that PIE
suffix become -ica in Slavic?


Torsten