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ETYMA GRAECA VIII (36–39)
Author(s) -
SZEMERÉNYI OSWALD
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
transactions of the philological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-968X
pISSN - 0079-1636
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-968x.1994.tb00429.x
Subject(s) - oath , verb , friendship , linguistics , meaning (existential) , numeral system , literature , history , theology , classics , philosophy , mathematics , arithmetic , psychology , art , epistemology , social psychology
This modest quaternion of Greek etymological problems is offered in friendship to the well‐known Indo‐Europeanist of Cracow University on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. The paper deals with (1) the remaining problems of the IE numeral for 1,000; (2) and (3) the two terms of the IE expression of taking an oath where Greek horkos is shown to be from IE * s ( w ) or‐ko‐s , formed from the IE (!) verb * s ( w ) er ‐‘swear’ and Greek omnunai is derived from IE * om ( H )‐‘strong, strength’ and traced to the earlier meaning ‘affirm, assert, swear’; (4) Latin ambulāre , earlier anabolā ‐which is regarded as a borrowing from Greek anabolā ‐.