Alleged nursery words and hypocorisms among Germanic kinship terms
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- Hansen. Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard - Alleged nursery words and hypocorisms among Germanic kinship terms - 2017 - pp. 207-220
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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.
Original language | Danish |
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Title of host publication | Usque ad radices : Indo-European studies in honour of Birgit Anette Olsen |
Editors | Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen, Adam Hyllested, Anders Richardt Jørgensen, Guus Kroonen, Jenny Helena Larsson, Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Thomas Olander, Tobias Søborg |
Number of pages | 14 |
Place of Publication | København |
Publisher | Museum Tusculanum |
Publication date | 2017 |
Pages | 207-220 |
ISBN (Print) | 9788763545761 |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Series | Copenhagen Studies in Indo-European |
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Volume | 8 |
ISSN | 1399-5308 |
- Faculty of Humanities - Germanic, Indo-European, kinship terminology, semantics, language history, etymology
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