Re: Latin cucurbita "gourd"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:

>
> Is ther any current etymology for Latin cucurbita "gourd"? It sounds similar to cucumis "cucumber"?

I'd say they're related to each other, and to G kû:ma. The L words borrowed from an IE language.

Also, I don't know where that last repost came from, since I wasn't even signed in at the time.