Table 1.

Comparisons among Hittite, and Homeric and Modern Greek

Data	Hittite-Homer	Hittite-Modern Greek	Homer-Modern Greek
Cognate/not cognatea	33/140	23/150	87/86
Percent cognate	19.1	13.3	50.3
Replacement rate for cognateb	1.62 ± 1.26 (sd)	1.28 ± 1.03	1.19 ± 1.63
Replacement rate for non-Cognate	3.32 ± 1.77	3.26 ± 1.76	3.54 ± 1.83

^aRefers to number of words out of 173 (see text) judged cognate between the two languages;

^bRates of lexical replacement taken from ⁵.