A clue may be found in the Old Bodleian Catalogue of 1697, where this glossary is referred to as Scotica
etyma Petri Junii, omnia a Graecis deducta (Bernard 1697: I, 253).
The data show that most of these ten
etyma are comparable across the reconstructed languages.
By sheer combinatorics, Bohas and Bachmar arrive at the number of (26 x (26-1)) : 2 = 325 possible "
etyma"--w and y are excluded from the total of 28 Arabic consonantal phonemes as "extensions" of the labial b and the coronal t, respectively.
(7) This system is more faithful to the evidence, as the traditional model of assessing place-name elements according to their
etyma is in danger of obscuring important lexical and semantic information relevant to the period of coinage.
Given that forms that can serve as DMs are (or were, at some earlier point in time) very often also employed in a variety of other functions, the main problem of diachronic DM research is the explanation of how forms of language (the
etyma, as it were) acquire the function of a DM.
While the Ossetian reflexes of IE ',n and `n largely remain distinct, in a few
etyma a word-final Ossetian -n seems to reflex an earlier *m--cf.
Hannu Panu Aukusti Hakola: 1000 Duraljan
Etyma: An Extended Study in the Lexical Similarities in the Major Agglutinative Languages.
Ferlus (2006a) recently proposed two convergent
etyma for some ethnonyms; his work is based on some simple rules of phonetic change observable in the Sinosphere and studied for the most part by W.
However, in neither case, nor with all you, does the choice of English
etyma with which these forms are constructed appear to be calqued on languages spoken by the non-European population.
(24) Other words appear to have Hurrian elements in them (e.g., mdrgl 'guard, watchman,' mndg 'fine flour' (25), but the actual
etyma are not attested in the known Hurrian lexis and thus caution is advised.
Halevy's theory ("L'article hebreu," Revue des Etudes Juives 23 [1891]: 117-21) on the origins of the definite article in Central Semitic from the
etyma represented by the Akkadian near and far demonstratives (*hanni- and *?ulli-respectively).