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Is Slavic četa an Indo-European Archaism?

Greenberg, Marc L.
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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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2001
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Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers
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Slavic Linguistics
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Scholarly Publications
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Proto-Slavic language, Proto-Indo-European language, Etymology, Language contact, Uralic, Finno-Ugric, Nostratic hypothesis, Comparative linguistics
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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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