Trackie πιτύη ‘skarbiec’ jako nazwa zbiorowa

Abstract

The article discusses the origin of the Thracian noun pitúē (πιτύη) f. ‘treasury’, preserved as an explanatory gloss in the ancient Scholia in Apollonium Rhodium (I 933). Most linguists believe that the gloss in question is etymologically unclear. It is suggested that Thracian pitúē represents a nomen collectivum, derived from the Indo-European archetype *pitús m. ‘nourishment, food’ by means of the collective suffix *-uu̯ā (< PIE.*-uu̯eh2), which is productive in Baltic and Slavic. The Thracian word pitúē must have originally denoted ‘a collection of food, food stock, food products’, from which secondarily ‘food repository, store-house, magazine’, and finally ‘treasury’, as well as ‘treasure’.