From: andythewiros
Message: 66139
Date: 2010-05-10
>OK. I was thinking that the common meaning 'sweet' of Sanskrit <madhu-> might have been the more original meaning since it seems more basic.
> Wasn't *melit- the original word for unfermented honey? My impression is
> that the meaning 'intoxicant' for *médHu- is usually regarded as older
> (and it means 'honey' rather than 'mead' only in some branches).
>
> Piotr
>