Re: [tied] Re: Pre-Germanic speculation

On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 11:51:49 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

> 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.
>>
>
>Is PIE *w-y(h1)- related to vi- "two" in Latin viginta etc
>(semantically via "wind/twine")?

No, that's *h1wi- (presumably a variant of *dwi-).


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