[tied] Re: Apple

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, mkapovic@... wrote:

> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "grzegorj2000" <grzegorj2000@...>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> And, with another metathesis: Latin ma:lum, Greek me:lon < *maHlo-,
> >> Hittite mahla- "grape-vine" (and maybe Slavic malina "raspberry"
> >> also belongs here).
> >
> > Those could easily be from a native IE word *méxlom, from *mex-
> > 'provide, feed, nurture'. In fact, the reflexes in the attested
> > languages are very clear: Slavic /a/ is from /a:/ or /o:/, and
> > Hittite preserves /h/. Is the -ina in Slavic _malina_ a diminutive
> > ending? If so, then the meaning "raspberry" can be understood to
> > come from "little apple".
>
> _malina_ is usually interpreted as from IE *mel(H)- "black" (via
> vrddhi *mo:l-). The accentuation does not point to the laryngeal in
> the root.

What is the accentuation there?

What could have caused the vrddhi?

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, raspberries aren't black.

- Rob