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Pre-Hellenic Loanwords in Ancient Greek

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PHILOGLOSSA (cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1011087…) was a Marie Słodowska-Curie Actions funded project hosted by the Roots of Europe Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen (July 2023 – August 2025). Posts by @mattitiahu.bsky.social.

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Pre-Hellenic Loanwords in Ancient Greek @philoglossa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
One of the project publications, an article titled "The Formation of Ancient Greek: A view from construction and craft terminology" has now appeared in The Speakers of Indo-European and Their World, edited by S. Neri & M. de Vaan. (Full volume Open Access download available at the link below).
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Pre-Hellenic Loanwords in Ancient Greek @philoglossa.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Just got proofs for one of the project publications, coming soon in an open access volume from Reichert Verlag (Proceedings of the XVII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft)
Page proofs on an article "The Formation of Ancient Greek: A view from construction and craft terminology"
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Pre-Hellenic Loanwords in Ancient Greek @philoglossa.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Upcoming project conference: New Perspectives on the Early History of Ancient Greek (Copenhagen, 4.–5. August 2025). Link to the programme in the alt-text.
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Pre-Hellenic Loanwords in Ancient Greek @philoglossa.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Homer attests exactly once a term, αἰσυμνήτηρ, used to describe the god Hermes as he travels from Olympus to Troy to give Priam instructions to pay a ransom for the body of Hector: βῆ δ᾽ ἴεναι κούρωι αἰσυμνῆτρι ἐοικώς (Il. 24.327) He set out to go resembling an [αἰσυμνῆτρι] young man...
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Pre-Hellenic Loanwords in Ancient Greek @philoglossa.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I suppose that since BlueSky is a much bigger thing than it was when I started this account with one of my own invite codes, maybe I should post with this occasionally.
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Pre-Hellenic Loanwords in Ancient Greek @philoglossa.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
I have now translated the Hesychius gloss for this lemma in the dataset as "nourishing soft cheeses; these also are considered to be advantageous for sex" since I have been informed that aphrodisiac cheeses were apparently a thing.
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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 11/09/2023
Ilya Yakubovich and Alice Mouton have published a new edition, translation, and commentary on Cuneiform Luvian ritual texts, *and* it's Open Access?? Okay, maybe the future isn't so bad after all.
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 06/09/2023
I did not expect to find a reference to 'Merica in an academic paper about Hittites and the Ahhiyawa question:
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Pre-Hellenic Loanwords in Ancient Greek @philoglossa.bsky.social · 04/09/2023
Ancient Greek Word of Uncertain Provenance of the Day: ἄνθρωπος 'person, human being', first attested in a dative-instrumental form a-to-ro-qo (*ἀνθρώκʷωι) 'with (a figure of) a person' describing an inlaid decoration on a ta-ra-nu *θρᾶνυς 'footstool' in a Linear B inventory list (PY Ta 722.1).
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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 03/09/2023
I have created an account for my Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project. Project-related tweets and general Ancient Greek substrata related tweets will go there. bsky.app/profile/phil...
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Pre-Hellenic Loanwords in Ancient Greek @philoglossa.bsky.social · 03/09/2023
First post! This account will be for general outreach activities of the EU funded MSCA project Pre-Hellenic Loanwords in Greek!
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