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farnus

farnus

ash-tree (?)

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Where it lives

What it meant

1. farnus — de Vaan

farnus 'ash-tree (?)' [f o] (Vitn) The meaning of this near-hapax cannot be ascertained. As Schrijver 1991 shows in detail, it is very difficult to connect farnus with fraxinus by means of a common preform or a common PIE root The word cannot be derived from PIE *bhrHg-*birch' by means of known phonetic rules and without a number of ad hoc assumptions, and the meaning is uncertain anyway. It is best to regard the … — [de Vaan, s.v. farnus, p. 217]

2. farnus — Lewis & Short

farnus, i, f.perh. for franus, contr. from fraxinus,

I an ash, ash-tree, Vitr. 7, 1 dub. (al. fraxinus); cf. Pall. 1, 9, 3.

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Where it came from

  • de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. farnus (scan p. 217; entry #529). Root candidates: *bheh2-.
  • Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. farnus (scan p. 241; entry #3731).

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