U Stem

OIr melo acts as a **u-stem** genitive and absolutely nothing like the original genitive **mlitós, while milis 'sweet' being a separate word shouldn't contaminate our assessment of 'honey'. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And you clearly don't know anything about Old Irish; the genitive of /all/ i-stems is refashioned after the u-stem nouns. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You never bothered reading Douglas/Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, p.271 under *mélit: "... while OIr mil gen. melo is an i-stem, analogically refashioned after the u-stem 'mead'." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ethan Osten: "And you clearly don't know anything about Old Irish; the genitive of /all/ i-stems is refashioned after the u-stem nouns." ❋ Unknown (2010)

One would expect a hypothetical PIE u-stem **gʰóndus 'grasper; hand' to end up as **gantuz in Proto-Germanic but certainly not *handuz which rather suggests a non-existent PIE stem **kondʰ-u-. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In light of Hittite militu- 'honeysweet'2, a characteristically Indo-European u-stem adjective derived from milit- 'honey', there should be no doubt where the first element comes from. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What is strangely compelling of course, is that madhu- could go back to something like this: *madH-u- An u-stem derivation from *madH. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Glen Gordon: "You never bothered reading Douglas/Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, p.271 under *mélit: "... while OIr mil gen. melo is an i-stem, analogically refashioned after the u-stem 'mead'." ❋ Unknown (2010)