Re: Sumerian Lexicon

caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
> I checked out the sample page he offers.  I'm always looking for
> sources for vocabulary.  It was a section from "L" and included was
> the word for juniper.  I don't have the expertise to comment on the
> word itself, but I wonder about the etymology he gives for "juniper."
> He says it comes from the Latin "juvenis," youth, and "parere," to
> produce.  Why, then, does the AHD say that the origin of the Latin
> word "juniperus" is unknown?
The latest AHD _does_ relate juniperus from *yoini-paros, the latter part being
indeed the same as "to produce", but glossing *yoini- as "juniper berry", and
qualifying the whole thing with a "perhaps".  The dedicated AHD book of IE roots
goes a step further and makes it a "probably".

*yoi-ni- in Pokorny is glossed as "Binse" (bulrush), with other cognates given being
Latin |iuncus|, Irish (I think) |aín|, both meaning the rush, and Icelandic |einir|,
|einiber|, Swedish |en|, German |Einbeerbaum|, meaning "Wacholder" (juniper).


	*Muke!
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