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The meaning "circle" or "racecourse" appears to be late; Chantraine (in his etymological dictionary of Greek) suggests that, though Lat. circus itself is probably a borrowing of this Greek word, the "circle … " meaning developed in Latin and was then re-borrowed into Greek. …

This is part of the "first compensatory lengthening", a set of regular Greek sound changes involving the loss of PIE/Proto-Greek *y and *s. … To make things more complex yet, different Greek dialects had different outcomes for some of these sequences, so that Attic κείρω corresponds to κήρω and κέρρω in other dialects. …

Mūs in Latin does not mean "thief", but only "mouse". (The Latin word for "thief" is fūr.) This word comes from an Indo-European word *mūs or *muHs, which is also the origin of the English word mouse. …

In Greek, the development seems to have been something like "pick out (information)" > "recount" > "say". If you're telling someone a story, you start by picking out the things you want to tell them. … (The reddit thread quoted in your answer is a bit misleading in that in Greek, unlike in Latin, legō hardly ever means "read", while in Latin it doesn't mean "say": the developments in the two languages …

The Attic-Ionic dialects of Ancient Greek underwent a sound change whereby, in a sequence of a long vowel followed by a short vowel, the quantities were switched: -V:V- became -VV:-, e.g. …

The right-hand (English) page usually contains more text than the left-hand (Greek or Latin) page. … There are a few reasons for this, such as the fact that Latin lacks definite articles, which are very common in Greek; and that Greek has a large array of discourse particles that add various nuances of …

However, it would have been noticeable to anyone who spoke even a little of both Greek and Latin that they shared many similarities, most obviously in basic vocabulary such as kinship terms and numerals …

There are good etymological dictionaries for Ancient Greek: if you're searching for the origin of a word, you'll probably find information in Frisk, Chantraine, or Beekes. … Are there any etymological works for Greek that focus on proper names? Specific journals that tend to publish such articles? …

The etymology of Greek kubos is unknown, but it is thought to be a loanword. … So it's plausible, though not provable, that there's a borrowing relationship between the Greek and Arabic words. …

Enualios or Enyalius (Ἐνυάλιος) is, in Homer and other Greek authors, either an epithet of the war god Ares or else the name of a separate god, the son of Ares and brother or partner of Enyo (whose name … Chantraine says "no etymology, probably pre-Greek", but the name looks like a well-formed Greek prepositional compound: en-ualios would be "the one in the hualos". …

The foot boundaries look like this: ὡς θεῶν τε βω|μοὺς πατρίδα τε |ῥυώμεθα Btw, as Draconis points out, this question might be more appropriate on Latin SE, which has also been accepting Greek questions …

For an intuitive sense of "linguistic distance" which negatively correlates with similarity and mutual intelligibility, the difference between Ancient Greek and these modern languages is pretty close to … Even though there are numerous cognates between Greek and these languages, those words have changed so much in both sound and meaning as to be unrecognizable for the most part except to specialists. …

After χρῆναι you have an accusative and infinitive construction: "it is necessary for X (acc.) to Verb (inf.)". In this case, the subject of the accusative and infinitive is τὰν πόλιν, and the predica …

The loss of intervocalic s is one of the defining features of Proto-Greek: that is, it occurred before the earliest attested Greek and is common to all the Greek dialects. … Intervocalic [s]'s in Greek have several different sources, e.g.: some come from earlier [t], by the sound change ti > si, e.g. basis from earlier batis some come from earlier [tj], e.g. pa:sa from * …

I don't know of an exact parallel to the Greek case, though. …