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Scytho-Slavica: Slaw. *šir7 und *širok7

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BLAŽEK Václav VILLNOW KOMÁRKOVÁ Jana

Year of publication 2013
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Indogermanische Forschungen
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Faculty of Arts

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Field Linguistics
Keywords Slavic; Iranian; Scythian; Sarmatian; borrowing
Description A purpose of the article is a new etymology of the Slavic adj. *šir7 & *širok7 "wide, broad", which follows after the analysis of word formation and detailed discussion of the traditional etymology. Arguments supporting the new solution, identifying in *šir7 a Middle Iranian source of the type *(k)šíra- "(broad) country", are supplemented by semantic parallels and related to the historical-geographical context mediated by the ancient and medieval authors.
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