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On the Etymologies of Kypros, kyparissos, kypeiron, kapparis, kypros, kardamon, kardamomon, et al.

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On the etymologies of Kypros (Cyprus), kyparissos (=the cypress tree), kypeiron (=Cyperus longus), kapparis (the caper plant), kypros (=Lawsonia inermis), kardamom (=Lepidium sativum in Ancient Greek), kardamomon (=Elettaria cardamomum; the plant known in English as cardamom). Upcoming versions will discuss additional important semantic progressions observed in a number of languages, semantics which definitely elucidate a number of words in the Proto-Indo-European language and in all Indo-European languages, and in many other languages. 

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Augmented and expanded second version, with new sections added, featuring additional new etymologies.

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