OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 40242

Wanderwort

/ˈwɒndəˌwɜːt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
palabra viajera
A loanword that has spread to many different languages, often through trade or the adoption of foreign cultural practices.
Hittite t/dapar- "leiten, verwalten, regieren" (and also with the Glossenkeil) is connected and we are in the presence of a Wanderwort that ultimately derives from the above Capp[a…
Mrs. [Agnes Smith] Lewis has correctly observed that many corrections in the old papyri (things which no doubt the διορωτής corrected) were misinterpreted by the ancients (hence wh…
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