Re: apple

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:

>
> IMHO Hittite s^- in s^am(a)lu- 'apple' would be a consequence of
> Fournet's Law.
>
> The Hittite word should be analyzed as a prefix *?\a- plus a root
> *mh\alV corresponding to NEC *mh\alV- ~ *mh\anV- 'warm'. This laryngeal
> fricative would cause the preceding *m to be denasalized in
> *?\a-mh\alV *abol- 'apple'.
>

Not only here, but also in Afrasian *?\a-bVl- 'leaf, grass', Kartvelian *bal- 'leaf', IE *bhel- 'to bloom'.

This and other examples illustrate how the "Nostratic" castle is built upon a pile of Neolithic Wanderwörter.