Re: NEuropean IE for apple

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:

> What's the correct stem for apple in Northern IE languages? What can

be deduced ?

>
> OE aeppel = OHG apful < *Germ. appola-
> ON epli < *Germ. *aplijan? *apilan? <*abelon, *abelion ?
> Crimean Gothic apel < *?
> Old Irish ubull, Welsh afall, afal
> Old Slavic ablUko < *a:blu-ko-
> Lithuanian obuolas Latvian a:buols < *a:bo:los
> Lithuanian obelis < *a:belis, a:belyos
> OPrussian woble < *a:bl-
> Abella, city that was called "malifera" by Virgil.
>

Check 'apple' here:
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Opr.html

Gamkrelidze and Ivanov reconstruct *amlu (which invites comparison
with Turkish 'alma'), earlier *s^amlu, related to Kartvelian *wasl.-,
cf. Basque 'sagar'


Torsten