The Integration of Consonants in Greek Loanwords in Syriac
The present study analyses the integration of consonants in Greek loanwords in Syriac. It is shown that in the vast majority of cases each Greek consonantal phoneme is represented by a single consonant in Syriac. Correspondences that deviate from this are usually the result of one of two causes. Fir...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Aramaic studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-35 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Syriac language
/ Greek language
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBK Europe (East) KBL Near East and North Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
Syriac
Greek
loanword
Latin
language contact
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| Summary: | The present study analyses the integration of consonants in Greek loanwords in Syriac. It is shown that in the vast majority of cases each Greek consonantal phoneme is represented by a single consonant in Syriac. Correspondences that deviate from this are usually the result of one of two causes. First, a Koinē form of Greek, instead of Attic, likely served as the source for some of the words that prima facie seem to exhibit irregular correspondences. Second, some of the seemingly irregular correspondences are due to secondary developments in Syriac. This study is based on a corpus of more than eight hundred Greek loanwords and their derivatives found in pre-eighth-century Syriac texts that were not translated from Greek. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5227 |
| Contains: | In: Aramaic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455227-01401004 |