Re: PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

So, glottalization makes beer weak? So that explains
Coor's and Budweiser.
So you're not linking "ale" with the root of
"hallucinate"?

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

. . .

> BTW, interestingly, he has
> http://koti.welho.com/jschalin/lexicon.htm
> both Fi. kalja "weak beer" and Fi. olut "beer"
> corresponding to the
> PIE "ale" word. Now the latter is an areal word,
> covering Germanic,
> Baltic, Baltic Finnic and Slavic, it seems it must
> have belonged to
> some erased culture of the area. So did the older
> loan survive two
> invasions?
>
>
> Torsten
>
>
>

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