At 2:44:12 AM on Wednesday, April 21, 2010, Anatoly Guzaev
wrote:
> English stalk seems to be closely related to PSlavic
> *stIblo (Russ stebel', Cz stéblo, SC stabljika 'stalk';
> *h&bl-h/n-).
That *h&bl-h/n- makes very little sense. According to
Derksen, Russ. <stebel'> is from PSl. *stIblI 'stem, stalk,
trunk', from PIE *stibH-l-yo-; Cz. <stéblo> and Russ.
<stebló> (dialect; ORuss. <stIblo>) are from PSl. *stIblo,
from PIE *stibH-l-om. Baltic has cognates without the *l.
I see no reason to think that English <stalk> is from the
same root.
Brian