The Egyptian Book of the dead

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, and lead to still more interesting results. For the ancient word

, ȧarerit, ‘a vine,’ has thus clearly the same etymological sense as our European word vine. “Vî-num ... attaches itself to vî-tis, vî-men, vî-tex, and—exactly like the Greek ϝοῖ-νος—to the Indo-Greek root vei, ‘to twine.’ So that vî-no means first ‘creeper,’ then ‘fruit of the creeper,’ finally ‘drink[‘drink] made from the fruit of the creeper’” (O. Schrader, Prehistoric Antiquities, 324).

Philological speculation might make a further advance.

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