The corpus record — Latin

town

steam

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Where it lives

Adelphi 4 · 4.04/10k
Hecyra 2 · 2.22/10k

What it meant

town — de Vaan

town 'steam'. In a preform *dhuHmo- we would expect Dybo's shortening (of pretonic shortening of long vowels in front of resonants in Proto-Italo-Celto-Germanic) to have taken place. The long vowel οι fiimus is explained by Schrijver 1991 from (possible) analogy with the (*)« infixUgoand suffio. The reconstruction of root-final *-h2 is based on Hit. antuwahhas 'human* and tuhhae- 'to cough'. BibL: WH I: 56if., EM … — [de Vaan, s.v. town, p. 263]

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. town (scan p. 263; entry #653). Root candidates: *dhuHmo-.

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