Shipp George P. Modern Greek Evidence for the Ancient Greek Vocabulary

Sydney University Press, 1979. — 655 p.Modern Greek inherits most of its vocabulary from Ancient Greek, which in turn is an Indo-European language, but also includes a number of borrowings from the languages of the populations that inhabited Greece before the arrival of Proto-Greeks, some documented in Mycenaean texts; they include a large number of Greek toponyms. The form and meaning of many words have evolved. During the older periods of Greek, loanwords into Greek acquired Greek inflections, thus leaving only a foreign root word.