Re: PIE suffix =t in food?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:

>
> > > Middle Proto-Finnic *os^tra- referred to Balt. *as^tra- < PIE

*h2ak^- 'sharp'

> >
> > Also Polish ostry and the Sardinian pythonym colostri,

colóstri(g)u,

> > golosti, etc. as well as Basque gorosti, korosti 'holly tree (Ilex
> > aquifolium)', a compound whose first member is IE *kel- 'prick'.
>

The Sardinian form colóstru also means 'dog rose'.

> Spanish colostrio also has that -t- --and it is a kind of food
>

The Spanish word is *calostro*, from Latin colostrum 'first milk',
quasi-homonymous to the former.