Well, the language could be Zyryan = Komi. But the name used by Liddell,
Scott and Jones is closer to "Syrian" and "Syriac", and most of the
other 47 hits on "Syrianian" make much more sense if related to Syria
and Semitic languages. I accept that "Sirianian" is sometimes used of
Zyryan/Komi, but the LSJ spelling is "Syrianian". But if pïš is in fact
the Zyryan/Komi word for "hemp" rather than a form of the Syriac word,
that is best explained as a contraction of KANNABIS, or else as a
coincidence. It seems hardly plausible that the Greeks put together
their word for "hemp" from a concatenation of the words in two different
languages of remote "barbarian" peoples.
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