The Plant Name ἄμετρος ‘Rubus’ as a Palaeo-Balkan Term
The Plant Name ἄμετρος ‘Rubus’ as a Palaeo-Balkan Term
Author(s): Krzysztof Tomasz WitczakSubject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Local History / Microhistory, Social history, Ancient World, Historical Linguistics
Published by: Институт за балканистика с Център по тракология - Българска академия на науките
Summary/Abstract: The plant name ametros ‘blackberry, Rubus fruticosus L.’ (Pseudo-Dioscurides 4.37) is identified as the Proto-Albanian archetype of Alb. mjetër, mjetërr, mjedër, mjedhër ‘raspberry, Rubus idaeus L.’. It displays the initial vowel *a- (later regularly lost in Albanian), as well as the voiceless dental stop *-t- (confirmed by modern dialectal data, cf. Alb. mjetër, mjetërr, mitër). The voiced stop d or fricative dh are evidently secondary in Albanian.
Journal: ORPHEUS. Journal of Indo-European and Thracian Studies
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 25
- Page Range: 23-25
- Page Count: 3
- Language: English
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