arenko-

    arenko-

    English meaning: a kind of cereal, type of grain

    Material: Lat. arinca “ variety of grain, olyra (which resembles spelt) “ (“Galliarum propria” Plin. n. h. 18, 81; foreign, presumably Gaul. word, despite Niedermann ĕ and ĭ 30 not genuinely Lat.), Gk. ἄρακος “ leguminous plant growing as a weed among lentil plants “, ἄρακοι ὄσπριόν τι. τὸ δε αὐτὸ καὶ λάθυρον Hes. Because of the meaning difference quite doubtful equation; no objection offers sure enough the not sufficing confirmation from ἄρακος in ὄροβος ἐρέβινθος. Non-related in spite of Fick II4 16, 17 are Gk. ἄρτος “ bread “ (to dark origin, see Boisacq 84), M.Ir. arbar “ grain “ (see *ar- “ to plough, plow “), arün “ bread “.

    References: WP. I 84, WH. I 67.