Etymologizing ‘unetymologizable’ Greek dendronyms
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Graeco-Latina Brunensia |
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| Citation | |
| Web | Digitální knihovna FF MU |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | Dendronym; cultural term; Semitic; Hurrian; North Caucasian |
| Description | This article offers for discussion new etymologies of four Greek tree-names, amygdaléa "almond-tree", eri:neós "wild fig-tree", kerasós "bird-cherry", onkhne: "pear-tree", usually classified as substratal or foreign. The aim of these new solutions is to determine donor-languages as old cultural languages from the Eastern Mediterranean, namely Semitic and Hurrian, but also North Caucasian. |
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