%0 Journal Article %T Some Greek etymologies %A Woodhouse, Robert %J Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia %V 2014 %R 10.4467/20843836SE.14.012.1655 %N Volume 19, Issue 3 %P 189-204 %K Greek language, etymology, Slavic languages, Proto-Indo-European language %@ 1427-8219 %D 2014 %U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-etymologica-cracoviensia/artykul/some-greek-etymologies %X Five short articles are presented offering, in some, new etymological suggestions (§§ 1. μάχομαι ‘fight’, μισθός ‘reward’, 2. βούλομαι ‘want, wish’ : Slavic *gòlъ ‘bare, naked’, 4. εἵλη ‘warmth, heat of the sun’), in others, comments on existing etymologies (§§ 1. μισθός ‘reward’, 3. οὖτα ‘wound’, 5. ὄνυξ ‘nail’ and delabialization by *l in North and East Germanic). Two of the items present alternatives to reconstructions with PIE *a (§§ 1, 3).