Lith. Z^em. obuolas 'apple' (was: Slavic compound words)

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

> No, no, no. The natural ending in Samogitian is lost as in Latvian.
> Derivative of (v)uobouls is (v)uobelie~lie (apple-tree), the

ending -

> -ie (e:) shows derivation from soft ending. If there were uoboulas,
> then apple-tree would be uobela, uobelie~la.
>
> Obuolas could be only adjectyve. It's the same as noun kvailys and
> adjective kvailas (stupid), kuilys (pig) and kuilas (as a pig) and

a

> lot of other lexis...

Sorry, Vytautai, but I'm somehow still inclined to believe those
Lithuanian dialectologists who registered this word in LKZ^, the more
especially as your arguments don't make any sense to me: for
starters, obele:~le: 'apple-tree (dim.)' (Z^em. [ûobelie~le]) is not
a derivative of [ûobouls] -- it's a transparent diminutive derivative
of <obelìs> 'apple-tree'; and even if it were, how could the
desinence of a *suffixal* derivative tell us anything about the
desinence of the base word?

What about reading Zinkevic^ius' introduction? You'll undoubtedly
enjoy the book.

Sergei