PIE words for sexual organs

Rick Mc Callister rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu
Wed Jan 12 05:04:18 UTC 2000


	How 'bout a form ancestral to English "balls", Gaelic palla [sp?],
perhaps *bhel-; or are these later developments? Gaelic palla "penis" is
obviously borrowed (or expressively mutated) but the meaning is different
from English
	I believe Theo Vennemann mentioned similar forms in Afroasiatic

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701



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