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κακός and καλός
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While the conventional derivation of the Greek adjective κακός from the Lallwort base of Lat. cacāre must be rejected, a connection with Av. kasu-, as proposed by Hübschmann and de Lamberterie, successfully accounts for the irregular grades of comparison κακίων and κάκιστος. For morphological and semantic reasons, one may however also consider an alternative connec-tion with the PIE verbal root *kenk- ‘hang, hesitate’. In either case, the thematisation of κακός from an older u stem form *κακ...
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+ Sandgaard Hansen, B
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+ Nielsen Whitehead, B
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+ Olander, T
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+ Olsen, B
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- Publisher:
- Reichert Verlag Publisher's website
- Host title:
- Etymology and the European Lexicon
- Pages:
- 505-513
- Publication date:
- 2017-01-24
- ISBN:
- 9783954902026
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- 2017-11-21
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the paper. The final version is available from Reichert Verlag.
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