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Article title

Forschungsbericht: Griechische Etymologie

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

Title of journal

Kratylos: kritisches Berichts- und Rezensionsorgan fuer indogermanische und allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

Article number

Volume number

Issue number

First page of article

ISSN of journal

0023-4567

Year of publication

2013

URL

Number of additional authors

Additional information

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

Reserve for a double-weighted output

Non-English

Yes

English abstract

This piece examines the current state of etymological research of the Greek language following the publication of Beekes's new Etymological Dictionary of Greek. I examine in particular the substratum hypothesis vigorously defended by Beekes and demonstrate both that certain phenomena in Greek could be connected to what can plausibly be assumed for the largely unknown Minoan language and, at the same time, that it is not possible to reconstruct the substratum language on the basis of the Greek reflexes, a claim made by Beekes. I also advance a considerable number of suggestions for individual Greek, in particular Mycenaean, etymologies.