The Problem of Lexical Borrowings from Anatolian Languages into Greek

This chapter is dedicated to the phenomena of lexical interference at the Aegean interface in search of Anatolian loanwords in Greek, together with some other related contact phenomena, such as Wanderwörter and glosses.1 We will pay particular attention to those forms that may go back to the oldest languages, namely Hittite and Luwian. This chapter sought to emphasize 1) the importance of transmission and 2) the flexibility in the reproduction of the source language by the target language. In our analysis, we have preferred to adopt the broadest possible view, not in terms of the quantity of lemmas col- lected (which would go far beyond the limits of the research) but rather in terms of the representativeness of the phenomena. Therefore, glosses or local renderings of foreign terms have not been excluded a priori.