Etymological and methodological observations on the ‹pg› and ‹pg?› vocabulary in robert beekes’s etymological dictionary of greek: n
Etymological and methodological observations on the ‹pg› and ‹pg?› vocabulary in robert beekes’s etymological dictionary of greek: n

Summary/Abstract: This article presents an etymological case study on Pre-Greek (PG): it analyzes about 20 words starting with the letter N that have been cataloged as ‹PG› or ‹PG?› in the new Etymological dictionary of Greek (EDG), but for which alternative explanations are equally possible or more likely. The article starts by discussing the Leiden etymological dictionaries series, then discusses the EDG and the concept of PG 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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