ἄνθρωπος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[man]] (Il.);<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. [[atoroqo]] \/[[anthrokʷos]]\/.<br />Derivatives: Many der.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: No etym. Survey in Seiler Glotta 32, 225ff. and Frisk. [[ἄνθρωπος]] resembles Hitt. [[antuḫšaš]] [[man]] (Kretschmer Glotta 9, 231f.; W. Petersen AmJPh 56, 59f.). Improbable Ruijgh, Lingua 25 (1970) 312; Szemerényi, Gnomon 43 (1971) 655f.; vW. - As no IE explanation has been found, the word will be a substr. word. Myc. <b class="b2">-oq-</b> does not prove IE origin, as the substr. language had labio-velars ([[βασιλεύς]]). Kuiper gave a substr. interpretation on the basis of [[δρώψ]], FS Kretschmer, 1, 211f; Lingua 21 (1968) 275f.; defended by Beekes, Glotta 73 (1995\/6) 13-15.