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APPENDIX B (to p. 117)
by professor r. s. conway
The following brief notes were written in answer to a
specific question which arose in the course of this inquiry
into the origins of Cretan civilisation. It is well to state,
therefore, that I have not yet read the book to which they
are attached.
Are XajBvpLvdot and Xavpa, Aavpeiov, connected ?
This question, raised by Professor Burrows, admits of
no certain answer at present, the negative being, I think,
at least as difficult to maintain as the positive. But it is
possible to say what phonetic and other assumptions the
connection would imply. I take it as obvious that there
could not be a better one in point of the meanings.
(a) I believe \a/3vpivdo<; to be probably a Cretan
form (i.e. one belonging to some one or other of the
languages spoken in early Crete) for reasons given in
22 ff. of my Prehell. Inscc. of Prcesos (B.S.A. viiL).
It is certain, I think, that the ending -tvdos is Phrygo-
Cretan at least.
(/9) Eteo-Cretic is certainly an I. Eu. language ; but
even were it not, a word Hauuro- or *laurro- (or -fa-)
might easily be taken over from Cretan-Greek into
either Minoan or Eteo-Cretic at an early period, and serve
as a base for further formations ; so that we might so get
lauurintlio- in either Minoan or Eteo-Cretic. In this
latter case, wc assume intercourse with Greek speakers
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by professor r. s. conway
The following brief notes were written in answer to a
specific question which arose in the course of this inquiry
into the origins of Cretan civilisation. It is well to state,
therefore, that I have not yet read the book to which they
are attached.
Are XajBvpLvdot and Xavpa, Aavpeiov, connected ?
This question, raised by Professor Burrows, admits of
no certain answer at present, the negative being, I think,
at least as difficult to maintain as the positive. But it is
possible to say what phonetic and other assumptions the
connection would imply. I take it as obvious that there
could not be a better one in point of the meanings.
(a) I believe \a/3vpivdo<; to be probably a Cretan
form (i.e. one belonging to some one or other of the
languages spoken in early Crete) for reasons given in
22 ff. of my Prehell. Inscc. of Prcesos (B.S.A. viiL).
It is certain, I think, that the ending -tvdos is Phrygo-
Cretan at least.
(/9) Eteo-Cretic is certainly an I. Eu. language ; but
even were it not, a word Hauuro- or *laurro- (or -fa-)
might easily be taken over from Cretan-Greek into
either Minoan or Eteo-Cretic at an early period, and serve
as a base for further formations ; so that we might so get
lauurintlio- in either Minoan or Eteo-Cretic. In this
latter case, wc assume intercourse with Greek speakers
227