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Faliscan

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fars, from Proto-Indo-European *bΚ°ers- (β€œspike, prickle”). Cognate with Latin far. The text has also been reconstructed as farme[n]tom, which would be suffixed with an equivalent to Latin -mentum. However, Bakkum rejects this reconstruction.

Noun

πŒ…πŒ€πŒ“ β€’ (farn (accusative)

  1. emmer wheat
    • 2009, GabriΓ«l Bakkum, The Latin dialect of the Ager Faliscus: 150 years of scholarshipβ€Ž[1] (in English), Vossiuspers UvA, page 216:
      ceres⁝ far *[0-2]e[l-3]tom⁝

References

  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, β†’ISBN, page 201