Latin tree names and the European substratum

• Authors: Corinna Leschber
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Generally, we can observe in European languages a high percentage of plant names among the words with unclear etymology. Many designations for plants – like for trees – derive from pre-Indo-European languages. Latin tree names are in most cases far from an unambiguous etymological assignment.

Keywords

PL

etymology, Indo-European languages, substratum words, Latin languager

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 129
• Issue: 2

Dates

online

2015-03-04

Contributors

author

Corinna Leschber