Re: Stacking up on standard works

Cyprus < *Kup-ro-s 'good, desired' < √*keup- (IEW 596)

2013/3/11, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>:

> Isn't kuparissos cognate with Biblical English gopher(wood)? Isn't it also
> the source of the toponym Cyprus? What is the exact Hebrew form? If it is
> from IE, could it be from Philistine?
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> From: Tavi <oalexandre@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: Stacking up on standard works
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 7:15 AM
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <sean@...> wrote:
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>> citrum = fragrant wood of the citrus tree, citrus L; kédros =
> cedar/juniper, kédron = juniper berry G;
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> This word has been already discussed here:
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/51755
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> 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
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> It's also conceivable Greek kupárissos 'cypress' has a similar
> etymology as a Pre-Greek derivative of IE *kwep- 'smoke, to boil'
> (Georgiev).
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