Robert Stephen Paul Beekes (Dutch: [ˈbeːkəs]; 2 September 1937 – 21 September 2017) was a Dutch linguist who was professor of comparative Indo-European linguistics at Leiden University and the author of many monographs on the Proto-Indo language. European.
Robert Beekes also worked on Pre-Greek, the language he called non-Indo-European, spoken in Greece before Greek, according to him probably around 2000 BC. Since this language was not written, Beekes took his information from many words in classical Greek that show a non-Greek structure and development.
One of these words is *ἀδάμας , whose etymology I deduced in 2014 without reading his book.
I wrote in this blog:
"Do linguists know that ἀδάμας – adámas of old Greek exists in today's Albanian in the form of "pa ndam"?
When I read his book and these very words, I was stunned. How can a linguist of such a level not understand this word and its origin.
Beekes writes:
"Adamas, hard metal? Diamond? Derived from *damnem, meaning indomitable, but semantically the etymology is doubtful. It is very likely a loanword adapted from folk etymology. According to Troxler and Barb, it is a loan from Semitic".
Adamas comes from the Albanian language "pa dam".
In Albanian language the word has same mening as the word undivided in English but it has plus a very specific meaning as "very close friend" so close that nobody can divide them.
The semantic meaning of ἀδάμας is "cannot be divided"
Is from:
ADAMAS=
ADAM-AS=*as is a suffix
A DAM=
A is the negative prefix that changes to the opposite meaning of "DAM" Which mean Divided.
DAM both on Geg and Cham version of Albanians means divided.
PADAM means undivided.
The Albanian language later developed the negative as "pa"
, today the word it is *padame in Geg which mean undivided and *pandare in Standard.
It seems that at the time the word was recorded the negative prefix *a was the same in Albanian and Ancient greek.
It is obviously an IE word that comes from an IE language.
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