u̯īn-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'wine'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/u̯īn/-
Attestation:	uinom

Commentary

Lexically in OIr. fīn, W gwin etc. 'wine'; uncertain Cisalpine Celtic uinom would be the only Continental Celtic attestation of the word, which is usually assumed to be a loan from Latin u̯īnum, though another route of the Wanderwort into Celtic cannot be excluded. That the form is inherited from PIE is unlikely for cultural-historical reasons, despite the attempts to give the word a PIE etymology (e.g. from the root *u̯i̯eh₁- uel sim. 'wind, twist', see e.g. De Vaan 2008: 680, Untermann 2000: 857).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

De Vaan 2008	Michiel De Vaan, Etymological dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages [= Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7], Leiden, Boston: Brill 2008.