Re: PIE suffix =t in food?

Do You postulate an /o/-grade or a hypothetical Sound Law */a/ > */o/
in a hypothetical language like non-Venetic Venetic?

2012/10/30, dgkilday57 <dgkilday57@...>:

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> --- 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)
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>> 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')
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> 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.
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> DGK
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