Indo-European cereal terminology suggests a Northwest Pontic homeland for the core Indo-European languages (original) (raw)
Fig 2
The emergence of cereal cultivation and processing terminology between Indo-Anatolian and the fragmenting core Indo-European dialect continuum.
The reconstructed protoforms of some agricultural terms are placed in the figure to indicate in which phase of the Indo-European language family they emerged. The accompanying arrows show the evolution of the meanings of these protoforms through time.