Re: Apple

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Rob" <magwich78@...> wrote:

> > And, with another metathesis: Latin ma:lum, Greek me:lon <

*maHlo-,

> > Hittite mahla- "grape-vine" (and maybe Slavic malina "raspberry"

> > also belongs here).
>
> Those could easily be from a native IE word *m�xlom, from *mex-
> 'provide, feed, nurture'.

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I can't find such a *mex- in Pokorny or Watkins. Probably just
overlooking some variant.
Rob, can you expand?
Dan Milton