Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *arfôScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_arfô
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Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013A Handbook of Germanic EtymologyVladimirOrelBrill2003Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7)Michielde VaanBrill2008Altnordisches Etymologisches WörterbuchJande VriesBrill1977Våtarv i språkgeografisk belysning: Ett bidrag till en nordisk kartläggningLars-ErikEdlundLars-Erik EdlundInger LarssonStaffan NyströmVäxter och växtnamn – ett möte mellan botanik och språkvetenskapUppsalaKungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur109–1242013Substrate stratification: An argument against the unity of Pre-GreekLotteMeesterGuus KroonenSub-Indo-European Europe: Problems, Methods, ResultsBerlin & BostonDe Gruyter Mouton283–3002024ὄροβοςbitter-vetchervumcultivated vetch
nounmasculinean-stemchickweedProbably a prehistoric Wanderwort from an unidentified Mediterranean, perhaps eastern Mediterranean, source de Vaan 2008: 195, s.v. ervumde Vries 1977: 12–13, s.v. arfiEdlund 2013: 112–15Kroonen 2013: 34, s.v. arfan-Orel 2003: 25, s.v. arfōn-. Related forms include Latin ervum and Ancient Greek ὄροβος, but the forms cannot plausibly be derived from a single Proto-Indo-European proto form and are better regarded as independent borrowings from a common source. The word had already reached Germanic in prehistoric times; a relationship with *arwīts is probable but not fully understood Edlund 2013: 112–15Kroonen 2013: 37, s.v. *arwīt-Meester 2024: 293–96.