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Publication date: 09.03.2015

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Editor-in-Chief Marek Stachowski

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Marek Stachowski, Robert Woodhouse

Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, Volume 20, Issue 4, 2015, pp. 221 - 245

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843836SE.15.015.2801

The discussion of the origin of the Turkish city name İstanbul that began well over a century ago has divided scholars into two groups: those who accept the Greek phrase εἰς τὴν πόλιν (or similar) as the source of the name, vs. those who try to trace it back directly to Greek Κωνσταντινούπολις ~ Κωνσταντινόπολις. The writings of both parties are encumbered by poor Turcology, inaccurate attention to early records and an overly narrow view of medieval Anatolian Greek phonetics. More scrupulous examination of all three types of evidence has revealed a more interesting picture than has previously been suggested.

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Ewa Stala

Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, Volume 20, Issue 4, 2015, pp. 247 - 255

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843836SE.15.016.2802

(Etymological Contribution to the Dictionary of Americanisms (2010)). This article deals with the theme of the denominations of drunkenness in American Spanish from the etymological point of view. As some of them, all included in the latest Dictionary of Americanisms released in 2010, lack this information, we propose the etymology of these voices.

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Robert Woodhouse

Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, Volume 20, Issue 4, 2015, pp. 257 - 272

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843836SE.15.017.2803
The notion of accentually determined dual Greek reflexes of PIE CRHC sequences, now well supported by Rix 1976, Rico (several publications) and even (spasmodically) by Beekes 2010, is matched in a new way with a version of Clackson’s 1994 dual Armenian reflexes of the same PIE sequences that has been made more secure by a suggestion of Olsen’s 1999. An unpublished rule for Greek by Francis 1970 is shown to be essentially a special case of the foregoing and alleged counterexamples are found to be similarly accentually determined. The slightly improved notion of the closeness of Armenian and Greek thus achieved becomes the basis for a new explanation of the origin of Greek αὐχήν.
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Robert Woodhouse

Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, Volume 20, Issue 4, 2015, pp. 273 - 284

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843836SE.15.018.2804

Some new examples of posttonic voicing/lenition by *h3 are discussed, together with the usefulness of this property in accounting for seṭ roots in Vedic with unaspirated root finals. Along the way, a possibly new example of aspiration of a voiced stop by *h1 is indicated. The second property of *h3 is as anlaut consonant in PIE reconstructions currently having syllabic *u as anlaut.

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Michael Knüppel

Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, Volume 20, Issue 4, 2015, pp. 285 - 295

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843836SE.15.019.2805
 (On reconstruction of Proto-Nostratic, or: How to write an anti-omnicomparatistic polemic). The following article deals with A. R. Bomhard’s latest attempts to reconstruct “Proto-Nostratic” (which forms a synthesis of Nostratic proto-language as proposed by the Nostraticists of the “Moscow Nostratic school” and J. H. Greenberg’s “Eurasiatic”) in a somehow ironical way. Bomhard claims to have reconstructed the phonology as well as the vocabulary and morphology of this supposed macro-family in his bulky two-volume-work. The reviewer criticizes this especially the methodological weakness of these attempts.
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Marek Stachowski

Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, Volume 20, Issue 4, 2015, pp. 297 - 299

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843836SE.15.020.2806

 (Marginal notes on Turkic ker(g)äk ‘necessary’). This author presents a few remarks concerning the etymology, usage and semantic evolution of Turkic ker(g)äk ‘necessary’ that seems to be sometimes, albeit not always, better understood as a noun. The starting point of these remarks is a new publication by Claus Schönig.

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