Appendix:Mycenaean Greek Swadesh list
This is a Swadesh list of words in Mycenaean Greek, compared with definitions in English.
Presentation
[edit]- For further information, including the full final version of the list, read the Wikipedia article: Swadesh list.
American linguist Morris Swadesh believed that languages changed at measurable rates and that these could be determined even for languages without written precursors. Using vocabulary lists, he sought to understand not only change over time but also the relationships of extant languages. To be able to compare languages from different cultures, he based his lists on meanings he presumed would be available in as many cultures as possible. He then used the fraction of agreeing cognates between any two related languages to compute their divergence time by some (still debated) algorithms. Starting in 1950 with 165 meanings, his list grew to 215 in 1952, which was so expansive that many languages lacked native vocabulary for some terms. Subsequently, it was reduced to 207, and reduced much further to 100 meanings in 1955. A reformulated list was published posthumously in 1971.
List
[edit]| โ | English | Mycenaean Greek edit (31) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I (1sg) | |
| 2 | you (2sg) | |
| 3 | he, she, it (3sg) | |
| 4 | we (1pl) | |
| 5 | you (2pl) | |
| 6 | they (3pl) | |
| 7 | this | |
| 8 | that | |
| 9 | here | |
| 10 | there | |
| 11 | who | |
| 12 | what | |
| 13 | where | |
| 14 | when | |
| 15 | how | |
| 16 | not | |
| 17 | all | ๐๐ฏ (pa-si), ๐๐ณ (pa-te) |
| 18 | many | |
| 19 | some | |
| 20 | few | |
| 21 | other | |
| 22 | one | ๐ (1) |
| 23 | two | ๐ (dwo), ๐ (2) |
| 24 | three | ๐ด๐ช (ti-ri), ๐ (3) |
| 25 | four | ๐ค๐ต๐ซ (qe-to-ro), ๐ (4) |
| 26 | five | *๐๐๐ณ (*pe-ne-te), ๐ (5) |
| 27 | big | |
| 28 | long | |
| 29 | wide | |
| 30 | thick | |
| 31 | heavy | |
| 32 | small | |
| 33 | short | |
| 34 | narrow | |
| 35 | thin | ๐ฉ๐ก๐ต (re-po-to) |
| 36 | woman | ๐๐๐ (ku-na-ja), ๐ (MUL) |
| 37 | man (adult male) | ๐ (VIR) |
| 38 | man (human being) | ๐๐ต๐ซ๐ฆ (a-to-ro-qo) |
| 39 | child | ๐๐บ (ko-wo), ๐๐ท (ko-wa) |
| 40 | wife | |
| 41 | husband | |
| 42 | mother | ๐๐ณ๐ฉ (ma-te-re) |
| 43 | father | ๐๐ณ (pa-te) |
| 44 | animal | |
| 45 | fish | |
| 46 | bird | |
| 47 | dog | |
| 48 | louse | |
| 49 | snake | |
| 50 | worm | |
| 51 | tree | |
| 52 | forest | |
| 53 | stick | |
| 54 | fruit | ๐๐ก (ka-po), ๐ (ka+po) |
| 55 | seed | ๐๐ (pe-ma) |
| 56 | leaf | |
| 57 | root | |
| 58 | bark (of a tree) | |
| 59 | flower | |
| 60 | grass | |
| 61 | rope | |
| 62 | skin | |
| 63 | meat | |
| 64 | blood | |
| 65 | bone | |
| 66 | fat (noun) | ๐ (*190) (?) |
| 67 | egg | |
| 68 | horn | ๐๐จ (ke-ra) |
| 69 | tail | |
| 70 | feather | |
| 71 | hair | |
| 72 | head | |
| 73 | ear | |
| 74 | eye | |
| 75 | nose | ๐ฉ๐ (re-a) |
| 76 | mouth | |
| 77 | tooth | |
| 78 | tongue (organ) | |
| 79 | fingernail | |
| 80 | foot | |
| 81 | leg | |
| 82 | knee | |
| 83 | hand | |
| 84 | wing | |
| 85 | belly | |
| 86 | guts | |
| 87 | neck | |
| 88 | back | |
| 89 | breast | |
| 90 | heart | |
| 91 | liver | |
| 92 | to drink | |
| 93 | to eat | |
| 94 | to bite | |
| 95 | to suck | |
| 96 | to spit | |
| 97 | to vomit | |
| 98 | to blow | |
| 99 | to breathe | |
| 100 | to laugh | |
| 101 | to see | ๐น๐ (wi-de) |
| 102 | to hear | |
| 103 | to know | |
| 104 | to think | |
| 105 | to smell | |
| 106 | to fear | |
| 107 | to sleep | |
| 108 | to live | |
| 109 | to die | |
| 110 | to kill | |
| 111 | to fight | |
| 112 | to hunt | |
| 113 | to hit | |
| 114 | to cut | |
| 115 | to split | |
| 116 | to stab | |
| 117 | to scratch | |
| 118 | to dig | |
| 119 | to swim | |
| 120 | to fly | |
| 121 | to walk | |
| 122 | to come | |
| 123 | to lie (as in a bed) | |
| 124 | to sit | |
| 125 | to stand | |
| 126 | to turn (intransitive) | |
| 127 | to fall | |
| 128 | to give | ๐๐ฎ (do-se) |
| 129 | to hold | ๐๐ (o-ka) |
| 130 | to squeeze | |
| 131 | to rub | |
| 132 | to wash | |
| 133 | to wipe | |
| 134 | to pull | |
| 135 | to push | |
| 136 | to throw | |
| 137 | to tie | |
| 138 | to sew | |
| 139 | to count | |
| 140 | to say | |
| 141 | to sing | |
| 142 | to play | |
| 143 | to float | |
| 144 | to flow | |
| 145 | to freeze | |
| 146 | to swell | |
| 147 | sun | |
| 148 | moon | ๐ต (LUNA) |
| 149 | star | |
| 150 | water | ๐๐ (u-do) |
| 151 | rain | |
| 152 | river | |
| 153 | lake | |
| 154 | sea | |
| 155 | salt | |
| 156 | stone | |
| 157 | sand | |
| 158 | dust | |
| 159 | earth | |
| 160 | cloud | |
| 161 | fog | |
| 162 | sky | |
| 163 | wind | ๐๐๐ (a-ne-mo) (pl.) |
| 164 | snow | |
| 165 | ice | |
| 166 | smoke | |
| 167 | fire | |
| 168 | ash | |
| 169 | to burn | |
| 170 | road | |
| 171 | mountain | |
| 172 | red | ๐๐ฌ๐ฒ๐จ (e-ru-ta-ra) |
| 173 | green | |
| 174 | yellow | |
| 175 | white | ๐ฉ๐๐ (re-u-ka) |
| 176 | black | |
| 177 | night | |
| 178 | day | |
| 179 | year | ๐ธ๐ต (we-to) |
| 180 | warm | |
| 181 | cold | |
| 182 | full | |
| 183 | new | ๐๐บ (ne-wo) |
| 184 | old | ๐๐จ๐ (pa-ra-jo) (m.), ๐๐จ๐ (pa-ra-ja) (f.) |
| 185 | good | |
| 186 | bad | |
| 187 | rotten | |
| 188 | dirty | |
| 189 | straight | |
| 190 | round | |
| 191 | sharp (as a knife) | |
| 192 | dull (as a knife) | |
| 193 | smooth | |
| 194 | wet | |
| 195 | dry | |
| 196 | correct | |
| 197 | near | |
| 198 | far | |
| 199 | right | |
| 200 | left | |
| 201 | at | ๐๐ (e-pi) (on) |
| 202 | in | |
| 203 | with | |
| 204 | and | ๐ค (qe) |
| 205 | if | |
| 206 | because | |
| 207 | name |