Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
> It's interesting that the root *omlos 'bitter' derives, according to
> N. Jokl, also in Dacian <amalusta>, where we have one testimony that
> as Illyrian, as Dacian treat PIE short stressed *o as /a/ (cf.
> Illyrian river name Plav < *pleu- 'to flow', also present today in
> Monte Negro as horonym Plav).
>
> Konushevci
amalusta considered to have been meant "camomile"; Jokle compared it
with Alb. word "ambëlë" which means "sweet". Why should be a camomile
sweet, that was unexplained, but the connection is made even today.
The taste of camomile is far away from being sweet, but is bitter.
The PIE *omlos . If it meant "bitter" and Dacian word was indeed from
this , then the unsuffixed form should be maybe *amalu(s) + suffix
*(s)ta ?
Interesting, Latin "amarus" (bitter) is seen as deriving from *am-ro- as
reduced form of *omo-; the Indic forms present both liquids "l" and "r"
in the reflexes of the PIE root.
Alex