%0 Journal Article %T Latin tree names and the European substratum %A Leschber, Corinna %J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis %V 2012 %R 10.4467/20834624SL.12.008.0597 %N Volume 129, Issue 2 %P 117-125 %K etymology, Indo-European languages, substratum words, Latin languager %@ 1897-1059 %D 2012 %U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/latin-tree-names-and-the-european-substratum %X Generally, we can observe in European languages a high percentage of plant names among the words with unclear etymology. Many designations for plants – like for trees – derive from pre-Indo-European languages. Latin tree names are in most cases far from an unambiguous etymological assignment.