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IIav-Compounds in Early Greek

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

H. M. Hoenigswald
H. M. Hoenigswald*
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Yale University
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[Merely determinative compounds, though common in many modern IE languages, represent a rare type in Primitive IE. Of the few Greek examples found as early as Homer, adjectives with παv- are the most characteristic. Their secondary origin from regular ‘exocentric’ types can still be traced in the epic. This is typical for the development of determinative composition in general, in Greek as well as in other IE languages.]

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Language , Volume 16 , Issue 3: July-September , September 1940 , pp. 183 - 188
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Copyright © 1940 Linguistic Society of America

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1 It seems that also παμϕναίνōρ, παμϕανάōν (where παμ- represents the ‘full’ reduplication of the verbal stem ϕαν- [*bhan-bhan-]) were associated with the παν-adjectives in question. See E 294-5 (cf. παναίοιος!), and several other passages, where those participles-and sometimes also finite forms (e.g. Δ 30)-are used in connection with armor: 9-11 etc.

2 See also Schwyzer, Griech. Gramm. 1.437.

3 Not sufficiently emphasized by Monro, Hom. Gramm.2 128. Brugmann's examples (Die Syntax des einfachen Satzes 121-2) do not prove the contrary. A large part of them are of recent and independent origin in the various IE languages.

4 γ 348 is still influenced by the governing negative sentence. Even in N 111 there is neither *πάμπαν nor *πάμτταν α#x1F34;τις, but the two adverbial words (not unlike ο#x1F50; πάμπαν) emphatically combined refer to a rigid verbal formula, which occurs many times at the end of the hexameter. See Γ 164 οὔ τί μοι αἰτίη σσί θεοί νύ μοι αἴτιοί εἰσιν, and elsewhere.

5 The creation of the πανaίοιoς group may have preceded and supported this development.

6 And, probably, from others, non-Homeric, or unattested.

7 See my remarks, Rendic. Istit. Lomb. 70, Lettere 270, 273-4.

8 See Schwyzer, Griech. Gramm. 1.80.

9 Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Philol.-Hist. Abt., NF 9.251. See also Frisk, Indog. Forsch. 52.285-6.

10 For ''Ειιηνες, only the narrower significance is found in Homer. The above interpretation presupposes that 'Ειιιηνες already meant ‘Greeks’ before was formed, and that the simple word is not a retrograde derivative from the compound (see Miller, RE 8.158-9). Nevertheless the 'Ειιηνες might well have got their strange accentuation (cf. the other names in -âνες) from ; see Kretschmer in Einl. i. d. Altertumswiss. 13.6.67.