Cretan μωλεῖν ‘Contend, Bring an Action to Court’ (original) (raw)

Mnemosyne, 2019

Abstract

It is argued that Cretan μωλεῖν ‘contend, bring an action to court’ may be derived from PIE *melh3- ‘to go, walk’, attested also in Gk. prs. βλώσκω, aor. ἔμολον, reflecting the frequent usage of motion verbs in legal contexts meaning ‘file a lawsuit’. The derivational basis of μωλέω may have been a thematized root noun *mṓlh3-s ‘going (to court)’ or a vr̥ddhi-formation based on *μολός ‘going’.

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