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'The Egyptian Chronicles' wrote:
> However, according to Classical Arabic sources, "drw" (d : an emphatic dad) is a species of trees of sweet odor growing mostly in Yemen. Some say it is the btm (1), from which the bitumen is extracted; others refer it to the terebinth-tree. Drw also stands for the great oak growing in the Yemeni mountains, and the cancamum tree growing in Arabia (Yemen).
> Further, from the tree "drw" tar is extracted.
Yes, it is exclusively indo-european because the root is ?or-
not *d-oru, Cf
latin ar-bor
tokharian ore
Connection with Arabic d_r_w is absurd from the start.
The root is ?_r-
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Arnaud