Re: Slavic compound words

>
> The rules also work for synchronically intransparent
> compounds, such as the word for "apple" (j)a"blUko (a.p. a).
> The root is itself mobile, coming from a PIE athematic
> mobile paradigm *h2ábo:l(s), *h2(a)búlos. In Balto-Slavic
> that became *abó:l(s), *ábolim, *abulés (with lateral
> mobility), thematized as Lith. óbuolas, Latv. âbols, with
> Winter's lengthening (in Shintani's formulation) originating
> in the end-stressed nominative (as also shown by the Latvian
> Brechton). Hirt's law of course never applied, and Winter's
> law applied because the word was _not_ (exclusively)
> barytonic. In Slavic the stressed suffix *-kóm was added
> (to the oblique?), and the word became immobile (*a:bul-ká
> -> *a:blUkó). Retraction of the ictus to the acute root
> syllable by "-Dybo" finally resulted in Slavic ja"blUko.
>

So when was the "apple" word borrowed in Balto-Slavic, do you think
(if that's what happened)?


Torsten