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When I search for a scholarly article on the Abyssinian Crisis and Italo-Ethiopian relations, what I really wanted was

 

THE HITTITE NAME FOR 'GARLIC'

Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak

Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, Vol. 59, No. 3 (2006), pp. 341-345

 

...Department of Linguistics and Indo-
European
Studies, ul. Lipowa 81, PL-90568 Lodz, Poland e-mail: ktw@uni.lodz.pl In this article the origin of Hittite suppiwashar 'onion' (liter. 'pure garlic') is carefully discussed. The author suggests that there were two différent terms for 'garlic' in the Indo-
European
languages: the Indo-Hittite appellative..
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You've got to specify the relevant field, otherwise you'll pick up linguistics or literature articles, as opposed to history.  Better still if you know a particular journal.  Also, try removing the word "European" from your search, or enclose it and the noun it modifies in quotation marks.

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You've got to specify the relevant field, otherwise you'll pick up linguistics or literature articles, as opposed to history.  Better still if you know a particular journal.  Also, try removing the word "European" from your search, or enclose it and the noun it modifies in quotation marks.

Excellent advice. 

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