Is Slavic četa an Indo-European Archaism?
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2001Author
Greenberg, Marc L.
Publisher
Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers
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Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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The Slavic word četa, which is found in modern Slavic languages with the meanings 'pair', 'band', 'troop', is shown to originate in PIE *kwet-, the root that underlies the PIE word for 'four'; the Slavic meaning 'pair' suggests that the root may go back to an earlier pre-PIE meaning 'two', cf. Hungarian két, Finnish kaksi.
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0538-8228Collections
Citation
Marc L. Greenberg. 2001. “Is Slavic četa an Indo-European Archaism?” International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 43: 35–39.
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