Re: [tied] Re: Pre-Germanic speculation

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:19:12 +0000, Marco Moretti
<marcomoretti69@...> wrote:

>Perhaps the word "parochial" isn't nice. Sorry, I won't cause offence
>to anyone. It wasn't direct to any member of the forum. These IEists
>lived in the last century, and reconstructed IE protoforms
>for "elephant", "monkey", "leopard", "lion". They derived
>*(s)teuros / *tauros from the IE root meaning "swell", they derived
>Greek (w)oinos and Latin vinum from another IE root (these items are
>Semitic loanwords!)

Are they? In the case of "wine", there are good reasons to believe that
the Semitic word was borrowed from IE. Anatolian wiyana- and *woi(h1)nom
can easily be derived from the root *weih1- "to wind", which yields many
other denominations for vine- and ivy-like plants.

PIE *woy(h1)nom would easily have given Semitic acc. *wayna-m -> nom.
*waynu-m.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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