Re: Cadaver < lat. cadere

Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> wrote or quoted:

papāver, -eris 'Mohn': wohl ptc.pf.act. *papā-ṷes "aufgeblasen,
aufgedunsen" (Bildung wie cadāver) zu Wz. *pap- "aufblasen" in pampinus,
papula (Vaniček 154).

  A guy quoted William Mitchell Ramsay, "Studies in the Roman Province
  Galatia. VI.--Some Inscriptions of Colonia Caesarea Antiochea",
  Journal of Roman Studies 14 (1924): 172-205 at 183 n.1 on a web forum:

|A poppy is carved on an altar of Hermes: the native name of
|opium was papa; papaver (cp. cadaver) is of Anatolian origin.
|Pappa meant father.

  . Ramsay did not mention any specific sources for an Anatolian
  origin there. But since that ending does not show up much in Latin,
  it might be a loanword. Sometimes folks link it to the Indo-European
  root "wer", but "wer" is really just a root, not a suffix.