Further etymology uncertain. "Lat. hordeum can be connected with Greek, Albanian and Gm. words for 'barley' or 'grain', and maybe with Arm. and Hit. words for 'wheat'. Yet it is difficult to derive them all from one common preform... Since barley was known in Europe from the seventh millennium BC, and since at least two main types of barley were in use, it is quite conceivable that the different IE dialects adopted 'barley' as a loanword when they migrated into Europe and Asia Minor" (MDV).. CDB suggests < PIE. *ģherzd(h)-, *ģhṛzd(h)-., Further etymology uncertain. "Lat. hordeum can be connected with Greek, Albanian and Gm. words for 'barley' or 'grain', and maybe with Arm. and Hit. words for 'wheat'. Yet it is difficult to derive them all from one common preform... Since barley was known in Europe from the seventh millennium BC, and since at least two main types of barley were in use, it is quite conceivable that the different IE dialects adopted 'barley' as a loanword when they migrated into Europe and Asia Minor" (MDV). CDB suggests < PIE. *ģherzd(h)-, *ģhṛzd(h)-., Further etymology uncertain. "Lat. hordeum can be connected with Greek, Albanian and Gm. words for 'barley' or 'grain', and maybe with Arm. and Hit. words for 'wheat'. Yet it is difficult to derive them all from one common preform... Since barley was known in Europe from the seventh millennium BC, and since at least two main types of barley were in use, it is quite conceivable that the different IE dialects adopted 'barley' as a loanword when they migrated into Europe and Asia Minor" (MDV). CDB suggests < PIE. *ģherzd(h)-, *ģhṛzd(h)-., Further etymology uncertain. "Lat. hordeum can be connected with Greek, Albanian and Gm. words for 'barley' or 'grain', and maybe with Arm. and Hit. words for 'wheat'. Yet it is difficult to derive them all from one common preform... Since barley was known in Europe from the seventh millennium BC, and since at least two main types of barley were in use, it is quite conceivable that the different IE dialects adopted 'barley' as a loanword when they migrated into Europe and Asia Minor" (MDV).. CDB suggests < PIE. *ģherzd(h)-, *ģhṛzd(h)-.
Buck, C., D. (1949). A dictionary of selected synonyms in the principal Indo–European languages: a contribution to the history of ideas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
[CDB]
Source
Michiel de Vaan. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages. Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online. Edited by Alexander Lubotsky. Brill. Brill Online.
[MDV]
Source
Trésors de la langue francaise informatisées. Centre national de ressources techniques et lexiques. http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/
[TLF]
Source
DEX online (2004-2015). Dicționare ale limbii române. https://dexonline.ro/
[DEX]
Source
Dictionnaire Francais - Occitan, Occitan - Francais, Occitan de Cassignac, Arve. 2015. Dictionnaire Francais - Occitan, Occitan - Francais, Occitan de communication. Toulouse: Mobileoccitan. Can be consulted online at: http://www.panoccitan.org/
[DOC]
Source
Nocentini, Alberto (2010). L'etimologico: vocabolario della lingua italiana. 1. ed. Milano: Le Monnier
[NEI]
Source
Robert Farren, PIE culture words collection, 2017
[Farren (2017)]
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