Black Athena: The linguistic evidence

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Rutgers University Press, 1987 - Civilization, Western
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS AND THE IMAGE
28
THE NOSTRATIC AND EUROASIATIC HYPER
39
Archaeological evidence for the origin
48
Language and genetics
56
Conclusion
88
Loans from other languages into PIH
98
Development of an IndoEuropean gender system based
108
Lateral fricatives
319
MORE SEMITIC LOANS INTO GREEK
325
Conclusion
339
Cooking
365
Medicine
371
Conclusion
378
Shipping
399
SOCIETY POLITICS
405

Conclusion
115
The elements of the Greek linguistic amalgam
121
The phonologies of IndoHittite and IndoEuropean
122
Conclusion
154
Summary on syntactical changes
163
Ancient Greeks sense of lexical borrowing
175
Conclusion
185
Egyptian
192
Conclusion
207
GREEK BORROWINGS FROM EGYPTIAN PREFIXES
209
The Egyptian word pr house temple palace
231
R entry or local prefix
240
Œn
258
Dr Rdr drw
267
Conclusion
275
Conclusion
298
SIXTEEN MINOR ROOTS
300
CONCLUSION
311
Politics
413
Abstraction
420
Personnel
430
Sacrifices
437
Conclusion
451
Twins Apollo and Artemis
464
Other Olympians
477
City names
503
Anubis Hermes and Sparta
516
Late borrowings and Lykurgos
529
ATHENA AND ATHENS
540
Athens as a colony from Sais?
564
Ht ntr nt Nt Athenaia
579
Glossary
695
Greek Words and Names with Proposed Afroasiatic Etymologies
713
Letter Correspondences
731
Index
797
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