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535-536, Table 2 CORRECTED

Table 2. Occurrences and accepted IE Greek etymologies of horizontal signsequences (lexemes) corresponding to monograms (cf. Table 1). A selection of
compounds has also been included, with precise horizontal writings of monograms in
bold. References (right column) are to latest supplemented edition of Chantraines
lexicon 28.

Linear B spelling

Linear B occurrences

Scribe

Alphabetic spelling

Etymology

Reference

ka-po

KN F(2) 841.5

(specific species of)

Cf. Latin carp to

481 [s.v.

fruit(s)

collect

1]

* (cf. )

This family includes

526 [s.v. ]

safflower? Carthamus

items whose colour is in

tinctorius L. 30

shades and tones of

]ka-po

KN X 6030

ka-pa (modifying GRA)

KN E(1) 71

124-5

ka-pa (modifying OLIV)

PY Un 138.5

42 (S138)

TH Ft(1) 141.1, 143.1, 151.1, 217.1,

311

219.1, 220.1, 234.1, 268.1

ka-pa[

PY Ua 9.1 (modifying OLIV in .2?)

42 (S138)

ka[-pa OLIV

PY Un 47.4

42 (S138)

]ka-pa[

PY Xn 1111.1

ka]-pa [

PY Xn 1261.1

Ciii

ka-na-ko

MY Ge 602.4B, .5B, 605.1, .2A* 29, .3A*,

57

.4A*, .6B, 606.3a

MY Ge 603.1, 2a, .3, .6, 604.1, .5

58a

MY Ge 603.1

59

yellow (cf. Sanskrit

kcan- gold/
golden; Old Prussian
cucan brown; German
Honig honey)

*a-re<-pa>

PY Un 718.8

24

a-re-pa-te (Dat Sing)

PY Un 267.3

1 (S2)

a-re-pa-zo[-o

PY Un 249.1

Cii

a-re-pa-zo-o

PY Un 267.2

1 (S2)

a-re-pe-se-u

TH Av 106.6

304

a-re-po-zo-o

a-ro-pa

we-a-re-pe

we-ja-re-pe

unguent

Cf. Sanskrit limpti.

54-55, 1269 [s.v.

Nominal form of

to coat, probably <

*lei-bh- (but initial -

*? (PN)

PY Fg 374

1 (S240)

PY Ea 102, 820.a

43 (S28)

PY Fr 1225.2, 1242.a

S1217 Cii

PY Fr 1355

Cii

PY Fr 1215.1

S1219 Cii

*(y) with unguent

PY Fr 1223.1, .2

44?

vel sim

PY Fr 1205

2 (S1202)

PY Fr 1217.1, 1218.1, 1225 recto

S1217 Cii

prosthetic?- a- is
problematic). See also
Greek (Hsch.),
Latin lin, Sanskrit linti

originalis .2

28

DLG-CG.

29

Asterisks (*) indicate that the term occurs more than once in the specific lines.

30

ka-na-ko appears there either plain or modified as e-ru-ta-ra red or re-u-ka white, probably

indicating different plant species or cultivars.

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honey

me-ri

KN Gg(1) 702.1, .2, 704.2, 7369.2

103

Amongst many related

me-ri[-to?

KN Uc 8032[+]160.2

124-D

stems in IE languages,

me-ri-to

PY Un 718.5

24

outstanding is Hittite

me-ri[-to

PY Un 718.12

24

milit-/ melit-; cf. Luwian

me-]ri-to

PY Un 718.13

24

mallit-)

me-ri-te-wo

PY Ea 481.1, 771, 799, 801, 813, 820

43 (S28)

Gen Sing of *me-ri-te-u

me-ri-ti-jo

PY Wr 1360.- (modifying VIN on .)

*. Adj *

656 [s.v. ]

honey-flavoured
PY Un 718.4 (Nom Pl)

24

*y > * >

Cf. Indian tra- cheese.

1106 [s.v.

PY Un 1177.4

Cii

cheese

Probably < *th2ri --

], 1325

PY Un 1185.2

1 (S2)

di-pte-ra (Nom Sing)

PY Ub 1318.3, .7

32

processed hide/

Association with

256 [s.v. ,],

di-pte-ra (Nom Pl)

PY Ub 1318.1, .2, .3, .4

32

leather

to process is probable.

275 [s.v.
]

tu-ro2

[s.v. ] 31

di-pte-ra3

PY Ub 1315.1 (Nom Pl)

31

Although the verb itself

di-pte-ra-po-ro

PY Fn 50.6

Ciii (S324)

(like Latin deps) is not

PY Un 219.6

15

necessarily core IE, we

di<-pte>-ra-po-ro

PY Ea 814 (-pte- apparently omitted)

43 (S28)

have no reason to doubt

di[-pte-ra-]po-ro-i

KN C 954.3

that is a Greek

]di-pte-ra[

TI Uh 12.1

formation.

31

See also M. MEIER-BRGGER, Zu griechisch Kse, in Indo-European Perspectives. Studies

in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies, J. H. W. Penney (ed.), Oxford 2004, p. 254-257.