Talk:ალაო

Armenian origin
If the basic meaning is "malt prepared for grinding" (compare ) then in my opinion this can be an Old Armenian borrowing from the family of, together with ,. Compare from that root, , Karabakh dialect , all meaning "grist, grain prepared for grinding"; these forms can come from. But this is all uncertain, so we should not put it into mainspace. Vahag (talk) 17:53, 22 June 2022 (UTC)


 * This looks interesting, at the very least we could move Mirianischvili's comparison to etymology rather than referencing him cryptically კვარია (talk) 18:17, 22 June 2022 (UTC)


 * And 🇨🇬, we don’t know if the root isn’t related. The meaning “beer” is probably projected back to PIE only for simplicity, since there historical and chemical evidence probably suggests something quite different, compare the rather late development of alcoholic drinks in the Orient, such as hinted at  and, . It may have been some lightly fermented ground barley; in the European Middle Ages one drank or , the Mediterraneans of Antiquity only knew beer as something foreign, Arabia knew it little enough that it could be forbidden, and let’s not start about  – why assume Indo-European had the slightest name for an alcoholic beverage that we know now? When the apples fermented they may have just thrown them away instead of making cider (which is a word from a vague Semitic word for anything alcoholic from the word for drunkenness, we reconstruct  which is as specific as it can get). Fay Freak (talk) 19:24, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
 * If I understand correctly, you are suggesting that is a derivative of . I don't know enough PIE morphology to judge. Vahag (talk) 15:38, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Basically I am suggesting it, or I suspect it was formed in Pre-Germanic but not Proto-Indo European as it is only attested in Germanic, Baltic-Slavic and Finnic and plausibly Latin, so another morphology of a Western Indo-European subbranch would apply, corresponding to and its Germanic cognate/etymon/descendant also being likely from a root ”to grind”, fitting also  apparently being from an Indo-European languages root “to grind”, with additional observations about frequent borrowings and meaning transferrals in this area, to say that your idea of relating this Georgian  to  is not dumb and well-paralleled. Fay Freak (talk) 07:12, 24 June 2022 (UTC)