Re: [tied] Lead and Purse

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:41:01 +0000, "Daniel J. Milton"
<dmilt1896@...> wrote:

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>
>See:
>http://www.unc.edu/~melchert/molybdos.pdf (or corresponding html).
> "Greek 'molybdos' is derived from Lydian."
> Melchert traces the Mycenaean word to a Lydian color term, and
>rejects a relationship with Latin 'plumbum' or Basque 'berun'.

That's the most unsatisfactory part about that etymology.

I also don' t quite see how "all later variants of the word
in Greek [molubdos, bolubdos, molibos, molibdos, bolimos,
bolibos] can be derived from the shape attested in Mycenaean
[mo-li-wo-do]".


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