Re: [tied] Re: Substrates in Reconstructed-PIE itself??

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 42464
Date: 2005-12-09

squilluncus wrote:

> Eneolithic? Is that a hybrid for Chalcolithic? I gather it is
> "a(h)eneus" lying behind. Is there any difference between the terms?

Both terms refer to the same "Copper-Stone Age" (intermediate between
Neolithic and Bronze). <aƫneus> (ahe:neus) is quadrisyllabic in Latin,
so <Aeneolithic> is more correct (though still a Latino-Greek hybrid),
and Eneolithic (the more frequent variant in this Age of Classical
Decline) owes its existemce to false analogy (<encyclop(a)edia> etc.).

Piotr