Origine géographique : supposée d'Asie
centrale.
I suppose you can read that it is supposed to be
from Central Asia
not China.
Starling has no word for apple in Old
Chinese.
Nevertheless the word Ping2-Guo
"apple"
can be from *br-eng or *bl-eng.
Something that looks like PIE
*a-bal
Maybe we can be bold enough to draw two
conclusions :
1. The original word was like *bal-
"apple"
2. PIE speakers added ?-a to *bal to make it
*?a-bal.
One more case of prefix ?a- !!
Cf. Mongolian *ölir "apple" (Starling) <
*wal-ir ?? (me)
Tungusic *ul-in
Nothing in Turcic.
Fruit : also fresh, raw
Cf. Latin ma-lus "apple" and a-ma-rus
"bitter".
One more case of prefix ?a- !!
I still think malus and apple are two different
words.
Arnaud
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 9:03
PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: apples on a
stick
Given that the original sweet apple comes from China,
it would make
sense thar sour apples did as well.
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