Quelques noms du vin et de la vigne dans les langues anciennes du Proche-Orient et du nord de la Méditerranée

 

The paper deals with a number of words in relationship with wine and vine. It is shown that the Indo-European word for ‘wine’ *wiH1n- is borrowed from a root attested in North-Eastern Caucasic that means ‘red’. In fact most words in Greek, Anatolian languages or Semitic are derived from North-Eastern Caucasic roots, hence bearing testimony to the ultimate origin of wine and vine-growing. Some items have even reached Egypt.

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"The rural World during the ancient Medditerranean Culture: Right/Laws, Religion, Trade, Practices"

 

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