Abstract
Abstract The vocabulary of Mycenaean Greek is more or less the same mixture of Indo-European, substrate, and borrowed items that we find in later Greek. Myc. words with well-established IE origins include: Other words apparently lack IE cognates: Certain words ending in -(i)nthosand -(s)soshave traditionally been associated with the substrate language(s) of Greece, i.e. the language (which may or may not have been Indo-European) spoken by the inhabitants of Greece before the arrival of the ‘Greeks’ (§1.3 above). In addition, some words are clearly loans from Semitic or other neighbouring languages: As one would expect, some changes in meaning are detectable between the Mycenaean period and Homeric Greek:
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