κῶας

Sayce 1893a:118 suggested that the Greek word κῶας ‘soft, hairy animal skin; fleece’ (pl. κώεα, Myc. ko-wo) is a loanword from Carian, which has a similar word preserved in the gloss κοῖον / κόον ‘sheep, (small) cattle’ – the etymological connection was actually suggested by Tzetzes (Comm. in Aristoph. Plut. 166b) for the very first time, who derived its diminutive form (κῴδιον) from the Carian word (the same hypothesis was put forward by Georgiev 1941a:90f. [who, however, treated Carian as a part of his Pre-Greek substrate language] and Bossert 1953a:316 [with a question mark, followed by HEG A-K:230] as well, none of them referring to Sayce). This suggestion is not mentioned by the overviews of presumed non-Hittite Anatolian loanwords in Greek (Szemerényi 1974a:152–155; Woodard 1997a; Yakubovich 2010d:140–157, Yakubovich 2013a:118–120; Sh. Hawkins 2010a; Gasbarra & Pozza 2012a:189–196; Rose 2014a; Hajnal 2014a, Hajnal 2018a:2041f.; Oreshko 2018a:102–113), including those that are devoted to Carian – Greek contacts (Adiego 2007b; van den Hout 2014a). The etymological dictionaries of Greek also neglect this theory and after refusing several suggestions of an Indo-European origin they treat it as a word of unknown origin with Beekes cautiously suggesting a Pre-Greek origin (DELG:604; GEW II:59; EDG:811f., all with refs.). However, Simon 2019a with discussion (cf. already Simon 2018a:398f.) argues now that the suggestion of Sayce is phonologically, morphologically, semantically and geographically entirely plausible.

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