Nursery words and hypocorisms among Germanic kinship terms

Abstract

By using Jakobson’s (1960: 127-130) criteria for determining the nursery-word sta-tus of a given lexeme, I argue in this article that, even if we should no longer re-gard PG *aiþīn-/-ōn- ‘mother’ (Goth. aiþei), *aiþma- ‘daughter’s husband’ and *faþōn- ‘father’s sister’ as nursery words or hypocorisms (Hansen 2017: 207-220), we should certainly still do so with PG *ammōn- ‘parent’s mother; wet nurse’, *attan- ‘father’ (Goth. atta), *basōn- ‘father’s sister’ and *mōnōn-/mōmōn- ‘moth-er; mother’s sister’.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelAdvances in Gothic Philology and Linguistics
RedaktørerAlexandra Holsting, Hans Frede Nielsen
Antal sider8
UdgivelsesstedAmsterdam
ForlagJohn Benjamins Publishing Company
Publikationsdato2018
Sider176-183
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2018
BegivenhedThe Goths revisited - University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Danmark
Varighed: 8 mar. 2016 → …

Seminar

SeminarThe Goths revisited
LokationUniversity of Southern Denmark
Land/OmrådeDanmark
ByOdense
Periode08/03/2016 → …
NavnNorth-Western European Language Evolution (NOWELE)
Nummer2
Vol/bind71
ISSN0108-8416

Emneord

  • Det Humanistiske Fakultet
  • gotisk
  • germansk
  • børnesprog
  • slægtskabstermer
  • etymologi
  • sproghistorie
  • semantik

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