Re: nut

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 50909
Date: 2007-12-15

--- Grzegorz Jagodzinski <grzegorj2000@...>
wrote:
4) The word in question is a Wanderwort, and both its
forms have been taken
from different sources "on its way". An example of
this model may be IE
"apple" (with the a-less forms like in Latin "ma:lum"
< *maHl- and with
a-having forms like English "apple" < *h2a-bl-, to
mention the most known
variations, from earlier *mVl-/*-bVl- ). Another
example may be the
Balto-Slavic- Albanian term for "nut". In Slavic and
Albanian only o-having
forms exist (Slavic ore^xU < *a-rais^a-, Albanian
arrë) while in Baltic -
only a-less forms exist (Lith. ríes^as), both supposed
to be from North
Caucasian source.

So what is that source?


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