Old English cyme and the Proto-Indo-European aorist optative in Germanic

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12147" target="_blank" >10.1111/1467-968X.12147</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Old English cyme and the Proto-Indo-European aorist optative in Germanic

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Although it has long been known that the Germanic subjunctive continues the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) optative, and several Germanic strong presents appear to continue reinterpreted PIE aorist subjunctives, the fate of PIE aorist optatives as a morphological category in Germanic has never been explicitly considered. Taking as a starting point Old English cuman &apos;come&apos; and its cognates, the author argues that if the present indicative goes back to the PIE aorist subjunctive *gwém-e/o- of the root *gwem- (cf. Vedic gámat(i), Gāθā Avestan jamaitī), this at once explains why the OE present subjunctive cyme with its synchronically irregular i-umlaut continues the PIE aorist optative of the same root, attested e.g. in Avestan jamiiāt̰. The root vowel of cuman is the result of either language-specific sound changes as in Old Norse koma and later Old High German coman or, more probably, backformation to cyme; the latter has apparently also taken place in Old Frisian kuma ~ koma, Old Saxon kuman and so may be dated to the period before the breakup of the Ingvaeonic dialect continuum. The remainder of the paper discusses other potential reflexes of PIE root aorist optatives in Germanic, and offers an explanation for their disappearance.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Old English cyme and the Proto-Indo-European aorist optative in Germanic

Popis výsledku anglicky

Although it has long been known that the Germanic subjunctive continues the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) optative, and several Germanic strong presents appear to continue reinterpreted PIE aorist subjunctives, the fate of PIE aorist optatives as a morphological category in Germanic has never been explicitly considered. Taking as a starting point Old English cuman &apos;come&apos; and its cognates, the author argues that if the present indicative goes back to the PIE aorist subjunctive *gwém-e/o- of the root *gwem- (cf. Vedic gámat(i), Gāθā Avestan jamaitī), this at once explains why the OE present subjunctive cyme with its synchronically irregular i-umlaut continues the PIE aorist optative of the same root, attested e.g. in Avestan jamiiāt̰. The root vowel of cuman is the result of either language-specific sound changes as in Old Norse koma and later Old High German coman or, more probably, backformation to cyme; the latter has apparently also taken place in Old Frisian kuma ~ koma, Old Saxon kuman and so may be dated to the period before the breakup of the Ingvaeonic dialect continuum. The remainder of the paper discusses other potential reflexes of PIE root aorist optatives in Germanic, and offers an explanation for their disappearance.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Transactions of the Philological Society [online]

ISSN

1467-968X

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

117

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

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Kód UT WoS článku

000460303400005

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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