Possiamo continuare a connettere ir. *adu- a ie. ‘mangiare’? Università della Calabria: Centro Editoriale e Librario, Cosenza 2010, pp. 331-344

Since the publication of an article by Ronald E. Emmerick (TPS 1966), the Avestan hapax āδū.frāδana- (Yt 5, 6) has mostly been interpreted as containing the same base as Sogdian ’’δwk, probably meaning ‘corn, grain’, both words being possibly connected to the IE base for ‘eat’ (Indo-Aryan *ad-). Eric Hamp discussed in two brief notes (TPS 1968, 1973) the many difficulties involved in Emmerick’s proposal, maintaining a sceptical attitude on the matter. With the aid of fresh material, the whole question is taken again by the author, also in view of the impact which the new etymology has produced on Elamite lexicology.