Re: The Return of the Knight Who Says "Një"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> 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

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Why should, for heaven's sake, PIE *omlos be *amalu(s)-?

Konushevci