title: Gr. ἄφρων [adj.] ‘senseless’: a Reassessment
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metadata.value: Garnier, Romain
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-12-03T16:57:24Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-12-03T16:57:24Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Garnier R. Gr. ἄφρων [adj.] ‘senseless’: a Reassessment. Philologia Classica 2021, 16 (1), 50–56.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2021.105
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33756
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The present article offers a reassessment of Hom. ἄφρων [adj.] ‘unreasonable, senseless, foolish’,
  which is traditionally accounted for as an ablauting compound (of the type πατήρ : ἀπά-
  τωρ) based on the simplex φρένες [f.pl.tant.] ‘midriff, diaphragm’ (+Il.). This archaic ablauting
  pattern (viz. °φρων vs. simplex φρήν*) is totally unparalleled for body parts; besides, the Ancients’
  interpretation of φρένες as ‘diaphragm’ is flawed. Φρονέω ‘to have (good) understanding
  or intelligence’ is a back-formation coined after ἀφρονέω ‘to act senselessly, to be foolish’.
  From zero-graded ἀφραίνω (via a synchronic reanalysis of -αίνω as a deverbative suffix of the
  type °φαίνω), an adverb *ἀφρα-δόν ‘senselessly, foolishly’ was eventually coined, which was
  the starting point of a whole new group. From this group was reanalyzed a “new” synchronic
  root √φραδ- ‘to heed, to consider’, reflected by Hom. φράζω. The lack of comparative evidence
  for this sprawling word family leads the author to assume that Hom. ἄφρων [adj.] ‘senseless,
  fool, heedless’ is in fact the reflex of a PIE etymon *ń ̥ -gʷʱr(h1)-on- ‘without sense of smell, not
  able of scenting’, from PIE *gʷʱreh1- ‘to smell’ (cf. Ved. jí-ghr-a- < *gʷʱí-gʷʱr(h1)-V-). This verbal
  compound of the type νήφων [*-on-adj.] ‘sober’ (< PIE *ń̥ -h1gʷʱ-on- ‘not having drunk’) would
  have been eventually reanalyzed as a privative bahuvrīhi (viz. ‘lacking φρένες’).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 16; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: PIE verbal compounds
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: reanalysis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: back-formations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Homeric phraseology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: universal semantics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Gr. ἄφρων [adj.] ‘senseless’: a Reassessment
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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