Re: [tied] [Nostratic-L] Re: An example

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 43410
Date: 2006-02-13

I think Greek has a variant klagos.

lact- <*dlakt- ?
galakt- < *glakt- < *dlakt ? *dlHkt-?
This -t ending is similar to *melit "honey" and h2olut- "beer". All of them are names of drinking liquids. Coincidence?

Joao SL


Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> escreveu:
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:38:30 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>Greek *galakt-, Latin *lact-, Germanic and Slavic *melk- (note that
>Germanic has -k-, which it shouldn't).

It should.  The root is *h2melg^- (Grk. amelgo:, Ir. bligim,
Lith. melz^u, CS/OR mUlzu, Lat. mulgeo).  Slavic shouldn't
have k (it has because *melko is a borrowing from Germanic).
I see no reason to connect *h2melg^- with *glakt-.


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