Masson, Michel <br/><br/>
Les emprunts sémitiques en grec : certitude et probabilité 

 -  2020.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> Through the examination of two recent books, this article aims at showing that, contrary to a common opinion, it is impossible to prove with certainty the Semitic origin of a pre-Hellenistic Greek word, although the borrowing of the Greek alphabet seems to imply possibly concomitant lexical borrowings. In compensation, what seems feasible is to collect quite a large number of recurrent coincidences that tend to reduce the part of hazard.