From oath to prohibition
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Julián Víctor Méndez Dosuna
Abstract
Prohibitive μά (/maː/) stands out as one of the most remarkable features of the poorly documented Thessalian variety of Hestiaeotis (Western Thessaly). The regular outcome μεί (/meː/) (< PrGk *mē), with the characteristic raising of its long vowel, is well documented in the other Thessalian regions, making unexpected μά all the more puzzling. Attempts to explain this deviant outcome in terms of a phonetic development are largely speculative and unsatisfactory in several respects. This sort of anomaly clearly suggests that a solution should be sought outside of the realm of phonology. Hence, in this paper, the substitution of prohibitive μά for μεί in Hestiaeotis is attributed to the analogical influence of the particle μά (/ma/) used in negative oaths.
© 2024 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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- Titelei
- Contents
- Rhotic metathesis in Gandhari
- The fronting of back vowels after *j in Slavonic
- On the etymology of Tocharian A śemäl ‘domestic animal’
- ‘A man of full-sin’
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- From oath to prohibition
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- Evidence for a new pre-Proto-Indo-European sound law *-ē̆m > PIE *-ō̆m
- Celtic in Greek characters and implications for Greek and Celtic phonology
- On some cognates of Avestan hakat̰
- The life cycles of counterfactual mood in early Indo-European languages
- A missed regular sound change between Latin and French
- To compound or not to compound?
