An etymological case study on the and vocabulary in robert beekes’s new etymological dictionary of greek: m
An etymological case study on the and vocabulary in robert beekes’s new etymological dictionary of greek: m

Summary/Abstract: This article presents an etymological case study on Pre-Greek (PG): it analyzes about 20 words starting with the letter M that have been cataloged as or in the new Etymological dictionary of Greek (EDG), but for which alternative explanations are equally possible or more likely (discussing all instances would be tantamount to rewriting the dictionary). The article briefly discusses the EDG (for an in-depth appraisal the reader is referred to part one of the article) and then analyzes the individual words. This analysis is performed by giving an overview of the most important earlier suggestions and contrasting it with the arguments used to catalogue the word as PG. In the process, several issues of Indo-European phonology (such as the phoneme inventory and sound laws) will be discussed.

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