Friday 1 May 2015

Submerged Greek vocabulary

J. Chadwick, Lexicographica Graeca (1996: 13) notes that a gloss in Hesychius ἐλύμνιαι· δοκοὶ ὀροφηναί (sic Chadwick: ὀροφῆναι LSJ) is paralleled in Mycenaean e-ru-mi-ni-ja. This word is entirely absent from Greek in the meantime.

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