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Latin tree and plant names with the suffix -ix, - ex

Latin plant and tree names with the suffix - e/i-x include rumex 'sorrel', cārex 'sedge', īlex 'holm-oak', salix 'willow, osier', larix 'larch-tree, vītex 'chaste-tree, Abraham's balm' and filix 'large fern, bracken'. Some of them are usually considered to be of substratum origin (cf. e.g. De Vaan 536 for salix Balles 2008: 49 for larix, WH I: 678 for īlex) and the etymology of most of these words is at best uncertain and often completely unknown. Without denying that some of them are indeed early loanwords from unknown sources, in this paper we shall try to show that most of them have viable IE etymologies.

Latin tree and plant names, suffix -ix, -ex, rumex, cārex, filix, īlex, salix, larix

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