Layers of root nouns in Germanic: chronology, structure and origin

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Abstract

The root-noun declension became productive in early Germanic, containing (I) inherited root nouns, (IIa) original substrate or loan words, and transitions from other declensions in (IIb) Proto-Germanic and (III) North Germanic. As ablaut was abolished, the inherited type would display ablaut grades that, in late Proto-Germanic, became predictable from the phonotactic structure of the root.
Translated title of the contributionRodnominernes lagdeling i germansk: kronologi, struktur og oprindelse
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEtymology and the European Lexicon : Proceedings of the 14th Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, 17-22 September 2012, Copenhagen
EditorsBjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen, Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Thomas Olander, Birgit Anette Olsen
Number of pages14
Place of PublicationWiesbaden
PublisherDr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag
Publication date2017
Pages169-182
ISBN (Print)9783954902026
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • root nouns
  • stratigraphy
  • Germanic
  • Indo-European
  • etymology
  • language history

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