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Grieks, Nederlands, en de gemeenschappelijke Europese woordenschat

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Abstract

Dutch (and the other Germanic languages) and Greek (and the other IndoEuropean languages) are united by their common inheritance from ProtoIndo-European, which includes a shared basic vocabulary. Knowledge of the sound laws allows one to pass easily from Greek to the corresponding Dutch words, many of which are still relevant in these www. times. Even after the breaking up of Indo-European unity, cultural contact between these languages was reestablished, first by the great wave which brought countless loan words, loan translations (calques) and semantic calques from Greek to Latin, and later from Latin to the modern European languages, and then by the reverse movement from Western Europe to Greece. Thus the common inheritance from PIE, combined with the uninterrupted cultural contact since Greek colonisation in Italy, led to the formation of a common European vocabulary.

How to Cite:

De Boel, G., (2021) “Grieks, Nederlands, en de gemeenschappelijke Europese woordenschat”, Tetradio 30(1): 2, 35–55. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tetradio.91893