From: G&P
Message: 63409
Date: 2009-02-24
>
It is noteworthy
>that Xenophon has
<thalatta> ktl. but also <Kilissa> and <Phoenissa>;
>these feminine
ethnonyms reflect *ky …
I thought the –issa ending was non-Greek, borrowed from some other language. If so, how do we know it is < * ky- ? Or has its origin been rethought in the last thirty years while my back was turned?
Peter