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The aim of the paper is to suggest a number of new etymologies as well as to review some old comparisons in I.E. The practice of ignoring the centum evidence for the voiceless labiovelar aspirates is common in the modern Indo-European lexicography and etymology. Greek is the only language which preserves the voiceless aspirates and contains some traces of labiovelars. This is why the author discusses...
We should not believe - as some scholars do - that Nicander showed such lack of talent as to sign his Alexipharmaca with a defective acrostic. This assumption becomes unnecessary if we accept the emendations to Alex. 266 and 269 proposed by William C. Helmbold and Jean-Marie Jacques. A discussion of this problem is followed by a Polish translation of the passage containing the acrostic.
The article relates various etymologies of the name 'Egeria' that have been proposed by scholars. The most probable of them is the one proposed by Aldo Prosdocimi, who connects it with the Indoeuropean root meaning 'lake'. The hypothesis has given rise to some difficulties that are here dealt with.
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