Hesychius

"Hesychius" must be discarded, namely, the commentary on Leviticus

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

"Hesychius" representing one and the same individual.

The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871

This would really make sense and go with Hesychius' testimony but for one thing, the inclusion of Iranian data like Modern Persian kahra- 'kid', Auramani kawrā 'sheep', Saka Khotanese kaura-, kám̥ra- 'sheep' which has been attributed to a Proto-Iranian reconstruction, *kafra-.

Manly goats 2010

Hesychius glossed the word κάπρα describing it as 'goat' and he assigned it to the "Tyrrhenian" language ie.

Manly goats 2010

However, if we follow instead Hesychius' testimony, the irregular Celtic reflexes can be perfectly explained through borrowing from the implied Etruscan etymon *capra with its unaspirated k-.

Manly goats 2010

If one is still skeptical, Hesychius was kind enough to add the gloss μέρα (méra) in his work Glossai which he equated directly with ὄμματα (ómmata) 'eyes'.

The hidden face 2010

Once we finally plough Pokorny's root into the mire where it belongs, his posthumous 'penis' can't get in the way of a more credible Tyrrhenian root for 'goat', backed up by Hesychius' own admission which Pokorny appears to have dismissed too eagerly as erroneous hearsay in a presumed classical age of ignorance perhaps.

Sowing wild oats and plowing the fields 2010

Once we finally plough Pokorny's root into the mire where it belongs, his posthumous 'penis' can't get in the way of a more credible Tyrrhenian root for 'goat', backed up by Hesychius' own admission which Pokorny appears to have dismissed too eagerly as erroneous hearsay in a presumed classical age of ignorance perhaps.

Archive 2010-09-01 2010

Solinus spoke of Βριτόμαρτις Britómartis as a native Cretan name for Artemis, the Greek goddess of moon and hunt, which he claimed had underlyingly meant virgo dulcis 'sweet maiden'1 and Hesychius doubly equates his Cretan gloss βριτύ with Greek γλυκύ 'sweet'.

Archive 2009-12-01 2009

“Hesychius wrote what could be considered a real lexicon,” using “Greek words defined in Greek by synonyms and illustrated by literary quotations.”

Analyzing Becky Sharp’s Trash 2008