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Some remarks on the etymology of Latin vīnum ‘wine’.

The aim of the paper is to summarize in brief two main hypotheses on etymology of Latin word vinum ‘wine’. First explanation reads vinum as a Wanderwort, thus as a borrowing, while the second defines it as a part of inherited lexicon. The article compares both explanations and gives them some more a...

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Published in:Scripta Classica Vol. 17; pp. 155 - 166
Main Author: Kardas, Kacper
Format: Article
Published: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Slaskiego 2020
Subjects:
Latin language
Lexicon
Semantics
Reconstruction (Linguistics)
Latin etymology
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