Gothic banja, winja and sunja
Gothic banja, winja and sunja
Author(s): Magnús SnædalSubject(s): Foreign languages learning, Morphology, Historical Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: etymology; word formation; Gothic; Old Norse; West-Germanic; Germanic;
Summary/Abstract: The present paper discusses the etymology of three Gothic nouns: banja* ‘sore’, winja ‘pasture’, and sunja ‘truth’. Each of them has a cognate in Old Norse: ben ‘fatal wound’, vin ‘oasis’ and syn ‘refusal’. None of the West-Germanic languages preserves all three nouns. All are short, feminine jō-stems with an -n- in front of the stem suffix. The main issue discussed here is the etymology and formation of these nouns.
Journal: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
- Issue Year: 133/2016
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 97-108
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
