Hurrian in Arraphe had a word *šann-orǝ 'plum-(tree), medlar' ( > Akkad. šannūru, perhaps also Sum. šennur id.), which can be compared with EC *swɨ̆nē. Other dialects, however, had *šall-orǝ ( > Akkad. šallūru, Arm. salor) with a secondary -l- (see Diakonoff-Starostin 1986, 34).

    The Caucasian word (with the meaning 'grapes' > 'wine') penetrated into Scythian *sana, Osset. sän / sänä (despite Abayev 1979, 67, the Indo-Iranian origin of the word is highly dubious). Note that usually this root is confused with PNC *ʒ́w[ǝ̆]nʔi 'honey, wine' (q.v.) - etymologically quite different.

    See Лексика 1971, 160.