%0 Journal Article %A Scarborough, Matthew %+ Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society %T Bactrian χϸονο ‘(calendar) year, (regnal) year’ : %G eng %U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-7AFF-1 %R 10.1017/S1356186321000079 %7 2021-02-26 %D 2021 %* Review method: peer-reviewed %X Since H. Humbach's Baktrische Sprachdenkmäler (Wiesbaden, 1966) the main etymological proposal for Bactrian χϸονο ‘(calendar) year, (regnal) year’ has been A. Thierfelder's suggestion of a loanword from Hellenistic Greek χρόνος ‘time’. In this article the plausibility of this etymology is re-examined, and it is further argued that it should be rejected on the grounds that the formal phonological differences between the potential Hellenistic Greek source form and its presumable loan-adaptation form in Bactrian are inconsistent with what is known of Bactrian diachronic phonology. %K Bactrian, Greek, loanword phonology, loanword adaptation, Middle Iranian %J Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society %V 31 %N 3 %& 599 %P 599 - 607 %I Cambridge Univ. Press %C Cambridge %@ 1474-0591