Re: PIE suffix =t in food?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:

>
> 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- ?)

Both 'milk' and 'ale' come from compounds with 'honey / mead / sweet _'; the *-t (dental) is a plural suffix: * 'bees > swarm of bees > hive of bees > honeycomb > honey', or similar.