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- noun linguistics A
loanword that has spread to many different languages.
Etymologies
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Examples
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This Wanderwort seems to have an Indo-European origin: *dhuh2- "to smoke".
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It hints at yet another Wanderwort possibly eminating out of Minoan Crete regarding materials used for red dye:
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I will restrict my focus to the reflexes relevant to the spread of this Wanderwort during the 2nd and 1st millennia BCE into the European world, more specifically how it might have spread to Italy:
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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I will restrict my focus to the reflexes relevant to the spread of this Wanderwort during the 2nd and 1st millennia BCE into the European world, more specifically how it might have spread to Italy:
The diffusion of the Italian terms for 'wine' from Etruscan 2009
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One way or another, it's hard to avoid the Wanderwort issue despite the seeming sound correspondences between the two cognates provided and I suspect there's something I'm missing about the true source of the Sanskrit term.
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Does the Wanderwort *'gn ring any Tyrrhenian bells?
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