[B-Greek] Etymological Dictionaries on-line

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Jan 6 09:46:10 EST 2005


At 9:16 AM -0500 1/6/05, Andrew Haas wrote:
>Dear Professor Conrad,
>I recently saw your comments on Frisk's Greek Etymology online, but have
>been unable for some reason to use it. I am trying to find out the origin
>of the word "phos," as in "man," "ho phos." And to see if has any
>connection to "phaos," which LSJ gives in its contracted form as "to
>phos." I've put just phos into the Frisk and nothing came up. Thus I was
>wondering if you had any suggestions for me on this point?
>Please let me know and thank you in advance.
>Yours sincerely,

Quite frankly, I've not been able to get the Frisk to work either, but I
think perhaps someone else on the list might be able to explain how to make
it work. I think you do have to have the right font installed in your
system (is it Titus?).
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
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