Monday 30 March 2009

Hill and its cognatives

A hill is an elevation.

Hill derives from Old English hyll which in turn ultimately comes from Proto-Indo-european *kel,*kol to rise

Related to
Greek;kolonos
Latin;collis
Lith;kalnas;mountain
Low German hull
sanskrit;kutam;top

also related to holm;island

Monday 9 March 2009

Apple, melon and cognatives

the word apple originally come from PIE *abel/abl.

Cognatives in IE languages include

Baltic;abola
Gaulic;avallo
German;apfel
Polish;Jablko
Serb;Jabuko
Welsh;afal

the word abalone(a type of Pacific shellfish) is derived from a word related to apple

Placenames related to apple include

Appleby
Appleford
Avella,a town near Naples
Avallon, France