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Indoevropský etymon dlouhý ve světle slovanských a tocharských kontinuantů
| Title in English | Indo-European Etymon "long" in the light of the Slavic and Tocharian continuants |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Linguistica Brunensia |
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| Web | Digitální knihovna FF MU |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | Indo-European; Slavic; Tocharian; etymology; "long"; "far"; semantic typology |
| Description | In the article the Indo-European etymon "long" is studied in perspective of both internal etymology and external comparisons. Newly Tocharian A lo, B lau and A lok, B lauke adv. "(a)far (off); away" with their derivatives and Gaulish leuga "(*long) mile" are included. With respect to Tocharian and Slavic forms the velar suffix *-gh- with adverbial function is separated and the root proper *dleH1- is determined. The specific form *dlongho-, appearing in Dardic (Khowar), Iranian, Latin, ?Celtic, Germanic, is explained with help of Osthoff’s and Stang’s laws as the acc.sg. of the u-stem *dloH1-u-m, plus the adverbial suffix -gh-, finally adjectivized by the thematic vowel *-o-. In the last part the semantic shift "long" -> "far" and vice versa in various Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages is discussed in perspective of semantic typology. Finally the attempts of external etymologies are analyzed. |
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