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‘River’ and ‘sand’ in Slavic and Indo-European context

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BLAŽEK Václav

Year of publication 2015
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Etymological Research into Old Church Slavonic
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Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords Indo-European; river; stream; shore; sand; semantic typology
Description In the present article the nominal derivatives of the Indo-European verb **H3reiH- ‘to set in motion’ are analyzed from semantic and morphological points of view. These derivatives form a remarkable semantic field defined by such meanings as ‘watercourse’ - ‘river’ - ‘riverbed’ - ‘shallow’ - ‘sandbank’ - ‘sand’ - ‘sandhill’. It is natural that such terms serve as bases for hydronyms. For illustration of similar semantic dispersion examples from Afroasiatic are used.
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