NOUNS DENOTING METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA IN GOTHIC AND THEIR COLOURING WITH STEM-BUILDING FORMANTS
The words denoting meteorological phenomena are analysed in the paper. Some words are marked by consonantal stem-building suffixes which indicated active/animate nouns in Proto-Indoeuropean. A lot of these words belong to a vowel declension in Gothic that is connected with the change of the attitude to the world and the loss of an animate meaning. Despite this, etymological, morphological and lexico-semantic analysis proves that the words of this lexicosemantic group related to the active class in the past and meteorological/ atmospheric phenomena were accepted as animate by ancient Indo-Europeans.
Keywords: Meteorological phenomena, stem-building suffixes, lexico-semantic combinatory, activity/animateness, ancient Germans
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Issue: 9, 2011
Series of issue: Issue 9
Rubric: Germanic Languages
Pages: 9 — 15
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