[tied] Re: Of cows and living

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

>
> On 2006-02-21 16:51, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > Why to exclude a PIE *melk(') with k(') for the Germanic words

(see

> > Slavic *melk-o) ?
>
> Because of Grimm's Law. PIE *k(^) becomes Germanic *x (h), which

may

> then become *g if originally preceded by an unaccented syllable.

For

> example, something like *mélko- would have become PGmc. *melxa-,

and

> something like *ml.k(^)ó- would have become PGmc. *mulga-. The

actually

> attested Germanic forms (*melk-/*mulk-) perfectly match Lat.

mulgeo:,

> Gk. amelgo: and Skt. {mr.j-}, as well as the Slavic root *melz-

and

> Lith. mélz^-/mi`lz^- 'to milk'; 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,
1. Could we imagine a PIE *melg^-ko for Slavic *melko?
2. In this case a similar formation PIE *m.lg^-ko < PAlb *alka <
Alb. ajkë 'cream' could be valid too.


I know that *-ko is a PIE suffix but I don't know its meaning, to
see that it can fit here or not.

Thanks again,
Marius