A New Idea on the Origin of πῡραμίς

• Authors: Gábor Takács

Abstracts

EN

The paper first gives a survey of all the etymologies proposed so far for the Greek term for „pyramid” within the Greek language and the Oriental languages. Then the elaboration of a wholly new suggestion is ventured on the basis of phonological criteria in the context of the supposed Late Egyptian source language.

Keywords

EN

Greek; Semitic; Arabic; Coptic; Late Egyptian; Afro-Asiatic; etymology; historical phonology

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Rocznik Orientalistyczny
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 98-134

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Gábor Takács

• https://orcid.org/0000000224666451

Identifiers

DOI

10.24425/ro.2019.129441

Biblioteka Nauki

57122158