Fwd: Re: Pre-Basque Phonology

[Patrick C. Ryan]

Dear Vartan and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Vartan and Nairy Matiossian" <varny at cvtci.com.ar>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 1999 1:48 AM

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> I would like to make a correction. Armenian <ort'> (not <ort>) doesn't
> mean 'wine', but 'grapevine, grape'. There are two plausible hypotheses
> regarding its IE origins, by Pedersen and Ajarian. The latter adds that
> Albanian <ard, ardhi> is unrelated to the Arm. term. Incidentally,
> "wine" is "gini" in Armenian, both English and Armenian terms coming
> from a common PIE source, seemingly borrowed from Proto-Semitic
> (according to V. Illyich-Svidich).

I have heard this claim often but frankly have never run into anyone who is
willing to defend the proposition.

Are you game? Or is VIS the last word on it?

Pat

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