[tied] Re: Pre-Germanic speculation

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