Scharfe Analysen: gr. σκεθρός ʻgenauʼ

• Autores: Daniel Kölligan
• Localización: Glotta: zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische sprache..., ISSN 0017-1298, Nº. 95, 2019, págs. 159-168
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • The Greek adjective σκεθρός ‘exact, careful’ may be derived from one the roots meaning ‘to cut’ posited for Proto-Indo-European (*[s]ker-, *skerH-, *skerdh-), if one assumes a dissimilation of the two rhotics in the putative pre-form *sker(H)dhro- that is attested in other Greek words, too, and a semantic shift from ‘to cut’ either to ‘distinguishing, knowing’ or to ‘short, precise’ as in Latin praecisus