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Some Greek etymologies
Some Greek etymologies

Author(s): Robert Woodhouse
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Greek language; etymology; Slavic languages; Proto-Indo-European language

Summary/Abstract: Five short articles are presented offering, in some, new etymological suggestions (§§ 1. μάχομαι ‘fight’, μισθός ‘reward’, 2. βούλομαι ‘want, wish’ : Slavic *gòlъ ‘bare, naked’, 4. εἵλη ‘warmth, heat of the sun’), in others, comments on existing etymologies (§§ 1. μισθός ‘reward’, 3. οὖτα ‘wound’, 5. ὄνυξ ‘nail’ and delabialization by *l in North and East Germanic). Two of the items present alternatives to reconstructions with PIE *a (§§ 1, 3).

  • Issue Year: 19/2014
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 189-204
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English