Re: [TIED] Itchy and Scratchy Stops

>It was *(s)amlu- and it's not really _my_ etymology but it sounds clever
>enough to adopt. This word is irrelevant to the topic of *-b- as well,
>since
>the IE **b is an illusion in this case. Coincidently there are similar
>words
>in Altaic for "fruit". I have to check a Turkish dictionary but I remember
>/alim/.

The closest Turkish word is "elma" meaning apple. The word for friut is
meyve. There could be a phonetic connection, though, because Turkic,
notably Azerbaijani, is notorious for transposing "l"s.

Chris
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