Griechisch σίαλος ‚Mastschwein‘
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Authors
Meissner, T
Publication Date
2019-05Journal Title
Glotta - Zeitschrift fur Griechische und Lateinische Sprache
ISSN
0017-1298
Publisher
Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht
Volume
95
Issue
1
Pages
190-200
Language
German
Type
Article
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Meissner, T. (2019). Griechisch σίαλος ‚Mastschwein‘. Glotta - Zeitschrift fur Griechische und Lateinische Sprache, 95 (1), 190-200. https://doi.org/10.13109/glot.2019.95.1.190
Abstract
This article discusses the attestations and etymology of Greek σίαλος ‘hog’. The word can be shown to be almost entirely limited to the earliest attested stages of the Greek language. Both Mycenaean and Homeric Greek suggest that the word was strongly adjectival in origin and not at first limited to denote pigs. The Indo-European etymologies advanced are either formally difficult or semantically unconvincing. On palaeographic as much as linguistic grounds the word is traced back to Linear A, and it is argued that it was borrowed from there into Greek as a technical agricultural term.
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.13109/glot.2019.95.1.190
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/287881
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