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Trubachev takes the root as a nominal derivative from Proto-Indo-European*péh₂wr̥(“fire”), like πῦρ(pûr, “fire”). The original sense would have been “spelt”, due to the grains having to be dried on fire, with semantic transfer onto the later popular wheat, while other languages used new formations from different roots to denote wheat, such as Proto-Germanic*hwaitijaz, Proto-Slavic*pьšenica, etc.[2]
Derived from Proto-Indo-European*peh₂w-(“to strike, hit”), and compared with Latinpaviō(“idem”), as grains are beaten and cleaned in order to harvest them.[1]
An old Wanderwort of ultimately unclear origin, which entered Proto-Indo-European before the various branches diverged. Beekes appears to tentatively favor this theory.[1] See the following footnote for more.[3]
^ Трубачёв, Олег Николаевич (a.2002) Этногенез и культура древнейших славян (in Russian), Moscow: Наука, published 2003, →ISBN, pages 232–233
^ Brown, John Pairman (2000) Israel and Hellas (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 276), volume II, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, page 9 seqq., considering rather owing to the original uncommonness of proper wheat in Classical Antiquity – πόλτος(póltos) and Latinpuls meaning porridge of spelt, χῡλός(khūlós) gruel of barley – a Semitic origin, compare Hebrewבָּר(bār, “grain, especially of wheat”) and Arabicبُرّ(burr, “wheat”)
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