Re: swallow vs. nighingale

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Grzegorz Jagodzinski
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 1:36 AM
> Subject: [Courrier indésirable] [tied] Re: swallow vs. nighingale
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> > 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-).

> "The most known variation"
> I definitely disagree.
> I can see two different roots.
> *H2_bh- and *m_l
> No wanderwort at all : two words.

Apples at the bottom of
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Opr.html
from IE to Basque to Proto-Turkic to Kartvelian; it seems to be the
same root. How anybody would show that this is not a Wanderwort (ie.
well-traveled loanword) I can't fathom.


Torsten