Re: Stacking up on standard works

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <sean@...> wrote:

>
> citrum = fragrant wood of the citrus tree, citrus L; kédros =

cedar/juniper, kédron = juniper berry G;

>

This word has been already discussed here:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/51755

It's a "Mediterranean" Wanderwort which possibly reached Latin through
Etruscan (Ernout-Meillet) and is related to Semitic *k.utr- 'smoke,
incense':
http://newstar.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=/data/sem\
ham/semet&text_number=+3078&root=config

It's also conceivable Greek kupárissos 'cypress' has a similar
etymology as a Pre-Greek derivative of IE *kwep- 'smoke, to boil'
(Georgiev).