Germania Semitica / / Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld ; edited by Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna.
Germania Semitica explores prehistoric language contact in general, and attempts to identify the languages involved in shaping Germanic in particular. The book deals with a topic outside the scope of other disciplines concerned with prehistory, such as archaeology and genetics, drawing its conclusio...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin : : De Gruyter Mouton,, 2012. |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 742 pages ). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Methodology of research in prehistoric language contact
- 1. Zur Entstehung des Germanischen
- 2. English as a "Celtic" language: Atlantic influences from above and from below
- 3. Amsel und Merula
- 4. Germania Semitica: +abr- 'strong', with a reflection on AbrahamlTheodoric
- 5. Atlantis Semitica: Structural contact features in Celtic and English
- 6. Germania Semitica: +aÞal- (OE æðel-, G Adel) 'nobility', With an appendix on Gk. ''Ατλαδ
- 7. Germania Semitica: Pre-Gmc. +-at- in E maiden, G Magd/Mädchen, Goth. magaps
- 8. Key issues in English etymology
- 9. Germania Semitica: Gmc. +drag-, +trek- (Lat. trah-, Gk. τρέχ-)
- 10. On the rise of 'Celtic' syntax in Middle English
- 11. Semitic Celtic English: The transitivity of language contact
- 12. Zur Etymologie von Rauch und riechen
- 13. PGmc. +drepa-, G treffen 'to hit'
- 14. Germania Semitica: +sibjō
- 15. Languages in prehistoric Europe north of the Alps
- 16. Syntax und Sprachkontakt: Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der indogermanischen Sprachen des Nordwestens
- 17. Note on the etymology of PGmc. +smītan and +smiþaz (E smite, smith, G schmeißen, Schmied, etc.)
- 18. Sprachgeburt durch Sprachkontakt: Die Entstehung des Englischen
- 19. Phol, Balder, and the birth of Germanic
- 20. Glauben wir noch an die Lautgesetze? Zur Etymologie von Phol und Balder im Zweiten Merseburger Zauberspruch
- 21. The name of the Isle of Thanet
- 22. Was Proto-Germanic a creole language?
- 23. Münze, mint, and money: An etymology for Latin Moneta
- 24. Ne'er-a-face: A note on the etymology of penny, with an appendix on the etymology of pane
- 25. A note on the etymology of Germanic +skellingaz 'shilling': With an appendix on Latin siliqua 'a small coin
- 26. Grimm's Law and loan-words
- 27. Germanische Runen und phönizisches Alphabet
- 28. Zur Reihung der Runen im älteren Fuþark
- 29. Semitic influence in Celtic? Yes and No
- 30. The source of the lng rune and of the futhark
- Abbreviations
- References
- Index of Atlantic / Hamito-Semitic etymologies
- Index of Hamito-Semitic words, word forms, and roots
- Index of Vasconic etymologies
- Index of Toponyms
- Subject Index