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Proto-Afro-Asiatic origin of ‘gum’?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Gábor Takács
Gábor Takács
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Székesfehérvár, Hungary
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Our European words ‘gum’ go back to one common source, cf. English gum, German Gummi, French gomme, Italian gomma, Russian σýΜΜИ, etc. As is well known, this source is Latin commi ∼ cummi, vulgar Latin gummi ∼ gumma, which was borrowed from Greek κ⋯μμι.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 63 , Issue 1 , January 2000 , pp. 96 - 99
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