Greek Words and Names with Proposed Afroasiatic Etymologies

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xi
3. Preface and Acknowledgements xvii
4. Transcriptions and Phonetics xix
5. Maps and Charts xxv
6. Chronological Tables xli
7. Introduction 1
8. 1 Historical Linguistics and the Image of Ancient Greek 33
9. 2 The “Nostratic” and “Euroasiatic” Hyper-and Super-Families 46
10. 3 Afroasiatic, Egyptian and Semitic 69
11. 4 The Origins of Indo-Hittite and Indo-European and Their Contacts with Other Languages 107
12. 5 The Greek Language in the Mediterranean Context: Part 1, Phonology 138
13. 6 The Greek Language in the Mediterranean Context: Part 2, Morphological and Syntactical Developments 185
14. 7 The Greek Language in the Mediterranean Context: Part 3, Lexicon 197
15. 8 Phonetic Developments in Egyptian, West Semitic and Greek over the Last Three Millennia BCE, as Reflected in Lexical Borrowings 223
16. 9 Greek Borrowings from Egyptian Prefixes, Including the Definite Articles 249
17. 10 Major Egyptian Terms in Greek: Part 1 292
18. 11 Major Egyptian Terms in Greek: Part 2 329
19. 12 Sixteen Minor Roots 357
20. 13 Semitic Sibilants 371
21. 14 More Semitic Loans into Greek 386
22. 15 Some Egyptian and Semitic Semantic Clusters in Greek 404
23. 16 Semantic Clusters: Warfare, Hunting and Shipping 452
24. 17 Semantic Clusters: Society, Politics, Law and Abstraction 482
25. 18 Religious Terminology 506
26. 19 Divine Names: Gods, Mythical Creatures, Heroes 539
27. 20 Geographical Features and Place-Names 577
28. 21 Sparta 610
29. 22 Athena and Athens 643
30. Conclusion 695
31. Notes 699
32. Glossary 837
33. Greek Words and Names with Proposed Afroasiatic Etymologies 853
34. Letter Correspondences 869
35. Bibliography 879
36. Index 957
37. About the Author 971