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New Atlantic words.

  • AxayÉ›. (ɑ́.xÉ™.Ê’É›) adj. and n. Achaean. [Greek Ἀχαιός.]
  • aʃɛ. (É‘Ì€.ʃə) n. An ill, a woe, a calamity, a trouble.  [Proto-Indo-European *agh-o-.]
  • murÉ›. (mù.ɾə) adj. Countless, innumerable.  [Proto-Indo-European *muH-ro-.]

AxayÉ› is a reborrowing from Greek. If it had been borrowed in the Kirumb era its Atlantic reflex would be *Ahvɛ—compare the Latin Achivus—but I don’t think it would be a high-enough-profile ethnonym to have survived in that form.

MurÉ› is cognate to the Greek μυρίος of the same meaning.  Unlike the Greek word, which can also mean ten thousand, it didn’t acquire a specific numerical sense in Atlantic.

Aʃɛ was built to parallel Sanskrit अघ agha; English ail is a cognate.

These are all for the next piece of the Iliad; I thought I might need to make up a word corresponding to ἔθηκε to finish it off…but on burrowing through my notes tonight, found out I already have one.  So:

təmme
REL
Ê’itÉ”
put.AOR.3SG
aʃɛs
trouble.PLUR
murÉ›
innumerable
adÉ™
ACC
Axayɛs
Achaeans
adÉ™
towards
that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans
The bit that gets me the most here is that the postposition adÉ™ is doing double duty here; I think the word order is functional here, and the proximity of the object to the verb disambiguates it from the reading *”that put Achaeans onto countless ills”—for which I suppose we would write “tÉ™mme Ê’itÉ” AxayÉ›s adÉ™ aʃes murÉ› adÉ™“.

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