Verba volant: sobre cómo llegaron las primeras palabras egipcias a la lengua griega

Sofia Torallas Tovar

doi:10.5209/cfcg.90613

Verba volant: sobre cómo llegaron las primeras palabras egipcias a la lengua griega

Sofia Torallas Tovar a:1:{s:5:"es_ES";s:21:"University of Chicago";}

Keywords: Greek language, Egyptian language, loanwords, Aeschylus/Sophocles, Supplicants, Aristophanes, Greek Comedy fragments

Abstract

This contribution presents a study of the earliest linguistic contact of the Greek and Egyptian languages and the first loanwords found in Greek literature. In order to locate this linguistic contact, I propose a stage for the lexical borrowing in the commercial exchange both in the Greek colonies in Egypt and in other Greek Mediterranean harbors, such as Piraeus and Halicarnassos in the Classical period.

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Torallas Tovar S. (2023). Verba volant: sobre cómo llegaron las primeras palabras egipcias a la lengua griega. Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos, 33, 53-75. https://doi.org/10.5209/cfcg.90613

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