Thessalian Personal Names and the Greek Lexicon
Thessalian Personal Names and the Greek Lexicon
This chapter examines the Greek lexicon and Thessalian personal names. It provides an overview of personal names according to the current conventional classification and a more detailed analysis of some nicknames belonging to a variety of concrete semantic groups that will cast light on the Greek lexicon in Thessaly. The chapter highlights the richness and variety of Thessaly's contribution in providing information about the Greek lexicon and suggests that some lexical items transmitted only by Glosses which turned out to be real in the light of the latent vocabulary from which Thessalian names were derived.
Keywords: Thessalian personal names, Greek lexicon, nicknames, lexical items, Glosses, latent vocabulary
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