From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 66743
Date: 2010-10-09
> It does, however, fit the notion of Vedic influence on the Greeks if it is a loan word rather than a common inheritance. I'm currently reading a paper by Françoise Bader with the title 'De mycénien matoropuro, azopozoo à grec matropolis, aleifobios: le traitement des sonantes-voyelles au premier millenaire'.It's just an eye-catching title - she doesn't propose that <matoropuro> means 'metropolis', rather that it means the core part of Pylos. The related part of the thesis is that the alternation of <matoropuro> and <matopuro> represents an alternation of /ma:tropulo-/ and /ma:torpolo-/.