Re: PIE suffix =t in food?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@> wrote:
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> > PIE *h2elut "beer" (Latin alu:men, English ale)
> >
> This is a Wanderwort referring to some fermented drink found in several
> languages:
> Georgian (a)ludi 'beer'
> Avar ridí 'whey'
> Tsezi orodu 'beer'
> Armenian ort 'wine' (possibly an Urartian loanword)
> Albaian ardhi 'wine'
> Basque ardao 'wine' < *arda-dano (second member from a root 'to drink')

Finnish/Estonian <olut> suggests that Germanic was not the immediate source, but another IE language provided the word to both Finnic and Germanic. Since Torsten is on vacation, I will be the one to suggest Venetic. The structure is possibly parallel to Latin <caput> 'head', and the root perhaps means 'froth, foam' as in <Alwin> and a few other river-names. Gothic loanwords occur in the Caucasus but I cannot say whether that is the immediate source of the Georgian word listed above.

DGK