Open AccessProto-Indo-European verb and Slavic etymology
Author(s) -
Александар Лома
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
južnoslovenski filolog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0763
pISSN - 0350-185X
DOI - 10.2298/jfi1066283l
Subject(s) - etymology , linguistics , slavic languages , verb , lexicon , variety (cybernetics) , history , scope (computer science) , philosophy , computer science , artificial intelligence , programming language
In Balto-Slavic, the large scope of stem variation within the verbal system inherited from Proto-Indo-European was reduced, on the paradigmatic level, to few apophonic verbs, reduplicated and nasal presents, but the former variety left traces in the lexicon, as alternate stems of an original paradigm gave rise to new paradigms, formally independent and semantically distinguished from each other. Bearing in mind this process may be helpful in solving etymological dilemmas and reconsidering problematic etymologies. This possibility is illustrated here by four instances of an etymological connection reestablishable, in Slavic, between apparently unrelated verbal stems if taking into account the Proto‑Indo‑European verb morphonology