--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> On 2006-02-21 16:51, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
it's the Slavic noun *melko that is the
> odd man out, most plausibly explained as a loan from a non-satem
dialect
> with *k from *g^. Only Germanic meets that description, and what's
more,
> Germanic has just the right noun with the right meaning. That
> practically clinches the case.
>
> Piotr
>
Hello Piotr, thanks for the explanation.
I wouldn't insist, but the Slavic *melko is not so isolated as you
think.
We have:
Albanian ajkë 'cream < OAlb alkë < [my etymology] < PAlb/Dacian?
*alka < PIE *m.lk-o/eh2
I think that my etymology is a very solid one due to the
connection 'milk' -> 'cream' and based on the proposed phonetism that
fits perfectly.
If true, based on PAlb *m. > PAlb *a, this word is so old that
couldn't be a loan from (P)Germanic.
Based on this, Alb ajkë is cognate with Slavic *melko an a PIE melk
(')- resists by itself: so we need to take it into account a PIE melk
(')/mel-k(') too.
Best Regards,
Marius