[B-Greek] Where words came from

Jerry Reimer Jerry at lsm.org
Tue May 15 12:35:54 EDT 2007


Dear Sirs,

I am trying to learn Modern Greek because I am interested in the movement of the language from the first century to the present so as to find out what things, if any, in the modern langage impact n the understanding of Koine. For this reason I am reading Caragounis and hope to get some help. I have Thumb and Zerwick but need further help. 

I have studied Koine but never Homeric or Classical or Modern Greek and cerftainly not any of the dialects. My question is: where do words like nero (MG water) come from? I know udor (Koine water) but not nero. When I look up nero in LSJ I can find nothing about nero. Why am I surprised? Because words do not just come out of the woodwork into the modern language. So I expected to find something in LSJ thninbking that nero came out of classical or Homeric and just jumped over Koine into Modern Greek, but I did not find anything. Is this because words like this (psomi bread; koine artos bread) come from a dialect not noted in LSJ? Where else could something like this come from if it is not there in some form of classical or Koine? I am not speaking about loanwords like arravon. Your help please.

Jerry Reimer



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