Einige ausgewählte Probleme der alteuropäischen Hydronymie aus Sicht der modernen Indogermanistik – Ein Plädoyer für eine neue Sicht auf die Dinge .
Some Selected Problems of Old European Hydronymia from the Perspective of Modern Indo-European Studies - A Plea for a New View of Things.

Summary/Abstract: The etymological research in hydronyms pertaining to the so called ‘Old-European hydronymy’ has been done since its beginnings in the 1940ies and 1950ies by Hans Krahe in the same, methodologically unchanged way. The kind of historical-comparative or Indo-European linguistics applied in this research is actually the kind that was used already before World War II . The new methodological approaches, especially in phonology and morphology, which have been developed in Indo-European linguistics in the last half century or so and the changes in the way things are seen in these fields that came along with these new approaches have been largely ignored by the protagonists of Old-European hydronymy research. This article wants to show on the one hand on the examples of the hydronyms Save, Drau, Isar and related names how many more things can be said about these hydronyms, when modern Indo-European linguistics instead of pre-war linguistics is applied. And on the other hand it will show that modern methodology can also lead to a point, where old certainties have to be discarded.

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