Hi all,What is "Syrianian"? Only 47 Google hits for this word, including another discussion of this etymology at http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/mailing_lists/CLA-L/2001/03/0413.php. And many of the hits are in 19th century works. It looks to me like Syrianian is an alternative name for Syriac, which is the language of the Suryani people e./g. of Turkey and so could easily have become called Syrianian. If so, this word "pïš" is in fact a NW Semitic one. If this word indeed exists in Semitic, the etymology would probably then be from QNH P$, a respectable Semitic construct chain "cane of hemp". The Čeremissian kene, kine "hemp" would then be either derived from QNH or KANH/KANNA, or an abbreviation of KANNABIS.
On Perseus
(http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2353110)
I found the following:
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
... borrowed perh. fr. Ugro-Finnish, cf. Čeremissian ke[ndot
]e, ki[ndot ]e 'hemp' and Syrianian pïš 'hemp'.)
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