Etruscans

[proto-language]

Dear Douglas and IEists:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas G Kilday" <acnasvers at hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 11:11 PM

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> Yes, psychotropic substances can spread like wildfire, along with the words
> which denote them: hence the difficulty in finding the linguistic source of
> "wine" (not to mention "hemp").

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[PCR]
I have heard the idea that *wei-no- is not native IE but it has always puzzled
me to know why this view is held.

To my way of thinking, it obviously means simply 'vine'.

Pat

PATRICK C. RYAN | PROTO-LANGUAGE at email.msn.com (501) 227-9947 * 9115 W. 34th
St. Little Rock, AR 72204-4441 USA WEBPAGES: PROTO-LANGUAGE:
http://www.geocities.com/proto-language/ and PROTO-RELIGION:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2803/proto-religion/indexR.html "Veit ec
at ec hecc, vindgá meiði a netr allar nío, geiri vndaþr . . . a þeim
meiþi, er mangi veit, hvers hann af rótom renn." (Hávamál 138)