--- In cybalist@..., Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:
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> Oh yes, the verb root itself is widespread. Derivatives of
*h2melg^- with "milky" meanings are also found in Tocharian and
Albanian. I suppose a common noun for the product of milking
originally existed -- most likely something trivial like *h2melg^-es-
(nom./acc. h2melg^os) or *h2melg^-wr/-w(e)n-.
>
Am I missing something, or is this thread ovelooking the fact that
all human cultures would be familiar with milk, and likely have a
word for it, regardless of whether or not they kept dairy animals?
And thus wouldn't the verb be more likely to develop from the noun
than vice verse?
Ned Smith