PROTO-GREEK: Online Resources – including my response to a query whether ASTU (town) & KAIO = KAUO (to burn) are Proto-Greek Words:

A research colleague of mine recently asked me whether  ASTU (town) & KAIO = KAUO (to burn) are Proto-Greek Words. Here are my answers.  

A: ASTU

In answer to your question, is ASTU Proto-Greek, it appears so. But always remember that it is also a Classical Attic word meaning “town/ city”, equivalent to the Latin “urbs” Liddell & Scott, pg. 110 (1986), as opposed to “polis” meaning “the fortress of the city” or even a “whole country”  Liddell & Scott, pp. 570-571 (1986).

B: KAIO/KAUO

See Greek Civ., Quiz 1:

http://quizlet.com/26471816/greek-civ-quiz-1-flash-cards/

RE KAIO it appears, YES, again, probably Etruscan & Proto-Greek:

from: Etruscan Phrases

http://quizlet.com/26471816/greek-civ-quiz-1-flash-cards/

And anyway, its variant, KAUO, to burn, is all over the place in Mycenaean Linear B, so the answer is a definite YES.

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PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN & PROTO-GREEK ONLINE RESOURCES:

NOTE that Mycenaean Greek is NOT Proto-Greek, and should never be considered as such. It is the earliest pre-Ionic Greek Dialect in the class of Eastern Greek Dialects, which include Mycenaean, Arcado-Cypriot, Aeolic, Ionic and much later, Attic Greek. 

Sites and Pages with further informationon Proto-Greek:

1 Wikipedia: Pree-Greek Substrate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Greek_substrate#Possible_Pre-Greek_loanwords

2 Proto Indo-European Vocabulary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_vocabulary

3 Proto-Greek Vocabulary: Quizlet

http://quizlet.com/14227179/proto-greek-vocabulary-flash-cards/

4 Hellenic Ancient Dialects, on hte Blog: We the Ecoumenists

https://spacezilotes.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/hellenic-ancient-dialects-proto-graieak-meros-a/

5 Brill Indo-European Languages Online

http://iedo.brillonline.nl/dictionaries/content/greek/index.html

(need a password to search: I will contact the professor and try and get one, Peter)

6 Proto-European & Sanskrit (important grammatical observation on reduplicating athematic MI verbs)

https://linearalinearblinearc.ca/tag/proto-indo-european/

7 ***** Do Inscriptions in Linear A Belong to Different Languages? *****

http://www.anistor.gr/english/enback/v011.htm

PRINT IT OUT!

8 Proto-Germanic & Indo-European Studies: Pre-Greek Substrate 

http://www.protogermanic.com/search/label/Pro


9 EUPEDIA: Forums = Proto-Greek

http://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/27821-Proto-Greek

10 Current Status on the Controvery on the Date of the Indo-European Dispersion

https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/7259/current-status-of-the-controversy-on-the-date-of-indo-european-dispersion


Richard