Indeed, only Wonder Warthog could deny the ubiquity of
the apple wanderwort. It seems to be along the lines
of wheel and ball. There was a popular book on the
origin of food I read a a while that stated that
domesticated edible apples, as opposed to crabapples
or sour apples, were from China, I believe Sichuan,
and spread from there via cuttings, that apples from
seed never breed true and are almost invaribly
inedible. I only know what the book says and can't
vouch for it, but as they say "apples on a stick, make
me sick".
--- tgpedersen <
tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> wrote:
[snip]
> 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
>
>
>
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