PIE suffix =t in food?
From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 66384
Date: 2010-08-03
I was thinking about some PIE reconstructions, and encountered a curious
recorrent suffix, that I humbly don't know if it's been well studied: Many manes
of edible substances have a neuter suffix -t, please take a look and send me
your comments:
Hittite s^eppit "cereal, wheat"
PIE *melit "honey" (Latin mel, Greek meli, Goth. milith)
PIE* dlh2ekt "milk" (Greek gala, Latin lac)
PIE *h2elut "beer" (Latin alu:men, English ale)
Greek alphitos "barley" (<*alphit- ?)
JS Lopes