[tied] Re: Pre-Germanic speculation

From: tgpedersen
Message: 26843
Date: 2003-11-03

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")?

Torsten