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The Greek preposition ana (1)

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Idiomatic expressions
11 Language, communication, libraries and education
11.01 Imperial languages
11.01.05 Shared linguistic items and features
11.01.05.02 Idiomatic expressions
Mesopotamian loanwords in Greek
11 Language, communication, libraries and education
11.01 Imperial languages
11.01.05 Shared linguistic items and features
11.01.05.05 Mesopotamian loanwords
11.01.05.05.02 Mesopotamian loanwords in Greek

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The distributive use of the Greek preposition ana in conjunction with numbers, e.g. ana dyo, “two each,” is removed from the original meaning of this preposition, “upwards,” but corresponds exactly to the Akkadian preposition ana. This is probably a kind of Syrian business slang, similar to the French à used in a similar sense in German accounting.

Bibliography

Burkert 1992, 38

Burkert, Walter. The Orientalizing Revolution. Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Period. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1992.

Amar Annus

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