Beech argument
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The beech argument (
urheimat in an area west of a line connecting Kaliningrad and the Black Sea, based on the current distribution of beech trees.[1][2] The argument, as summarised by Friedrich and Mallory goes that the Indo-European term *bʰāg(ó) most probably refers to the beech tree. Hence the presence of descendants of the term *bʰāg(ó) in Italic, Germanic, Albanian, Greek and (Indo-)Iranian, and potentially Celtic, Slavic, and Baltic, indicates that this word belonged to the most widely-spoken Indo-European language. And thirdly that since the beech tree distribution was limited historically to the regions west of the Eurasian Steppe, this is where this language was spoken.[3][4]
However much like the
Kurdish buz, these words for beech are only found in Western Indo-European languages.[5]
See also
- Comparative method (linguistics)
- North European hypothesis
- Salmon problem
References
- ISBN 978-3-11-014905-0. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
- ^ "European Beech". European Forest Genetic Resources Program. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
- JSTOR 41289089.
- ISBN 9781107054530. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
- ISBN 81-7141-875-9. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
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