κάροινον

Uncertain; Grimme assumes a loan from Semitic, suggesting comparison to Akkadian 𒆪𒊒𒌦𒉡 (ku-ru-un-nu /⁠kurunnu⁠/, “alcoholic beverage, a choice kind of beer or wine, possibly made with sesame”) via Hittite. This was considered doubtful by Beekes without giving argument, perhaps from the lack of evidence of a definitive Hittite transmission. For possible further foreign connections compare Egyptian kꜣm especially its earlier forms, its Semitic counterparts, and the Akkadian 𒃾 (GEŠTIN /⁠karānu⁠/, “wine, vine, grapes”). Alternatively perhaps from or related to καρύϊνος (karúïnos, “made of nuts, to be nut-brown in color”).

κᾰ́ροινον • (kắroinon) n (genitive κᾰροίνου); second declension

1. carenum, sweet wine boiled down

• → Latin: carēnum

• “κάροινον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κάροινον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κάροινον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 647