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Phrygian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₃g-os ~ *bʰéh₃g-es-, from *bʰeh₃g- (“to bake”), Cognate with Albanian bukë (“bread”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”), Old English bacan (whence English bake).
Noun
βεκος (bekos) n (accusative singular)
- bread
Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua 7.xxviii:
[1]- με κε οι / τοτοσσειτι βας βεκος
- me ke oi / totosseiti bas bekos
- 2020 translation by B. Obrador-Cursach
- And let Bas not give bread to him.
References
- ^ Obrador-Cursach, Bartomeu (2020) The Phrygian Language (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 139), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, page 533
Further reading
- Obrador-Cursach, Bartomeu (2020) The Phrygian Language (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 139), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, page 196