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The Etruscan word elfa
Word
elfa
IPA
elfa
Meaning
barley
See also
Proto-Indo-European:
*h₂élbʰit
‘barley’
Etruscan:
alφazei
‘barley, flour, kind of bread, barley-cake’
Comments
Loanword from an IE language (Greek?).
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