Alleged nursery words and hypocorisms among Germanic kinship terms

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By (re-)evaluating the etymologies of the three Proto-Germanic kinship terms *aiþīn-/-ōn- ‘mother’, *aiþma- ‘daughter’s husband’ and *faþōn- ‘father’s sister’ that are all claimed by at least some etymological handbooks to be nursery words or hypocorisms, I contend that we must abandon their nursery-word interpretations and rather regard them as inherited words derived from known Indo-European lexical material in a way that reveals important information on the Old Germanic society and its family pattern.
OriginalsprogDansk
TitelUsque ad radices : Indo-European studies in honour of Birgit Anette Olsen
RedaktørerBjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen, Adam Hyllested, Anders Richardt Jørgensen, Guus Kroonen, Jenny Helena Larsson, Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Thomas Olander, Tobias Søborg
Antal sider14
UdgivelsesstedKøbenhavn
ForlagMuseum Tusculanum
Publikationsdato2017
Sider207-220
ISBN (Trykt)9788763545761
StatusUdgivet - 2017
NavnCopenhagen Studies in Indo-European
Vol/bind8
ISSN1399-5308

    Forskningsområder

  • Det Humanistiske Fakultet - germansk, indoeuropæisk, slægtskabstermer, semantik, etymologi, sproghistorie

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