An analytic dictionary of English etymology

Liberman, Anatoly; Mitchell, J. Lawrence

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“…Prefix { hu } as a cognate morpheme is the hypothesis of this study, in the remote past, particularly , in Latin " Man is not a cognate of Latin (homo) through an etymon beginning with /ghm-/" (Leberman, 2008: xlii) Gothic word ghman means both slave and servant, in other words it is a part of Germanic group (East Germanic) and the word semantically means man or human being of either sex-male " (ibid.) "…”

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Prefix (hu) as a Cognate Morpheme in Old English and Avestan

Hamawandy¹

2015

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This study is confirms the historical lexical correlation between Old English Germanic group and Indo -Iranian group with the insights of lexical theories and analyze the origin of cognate morphemes particularly, this prefix (hu). The present study consists of four sections: The first section introduces the aims, the method of this study as a comparative analysis, etymology and prefix as a part of derivational morphemes. Section two investigates the origin of two groups of Indo -European language family (IE) Viz. Germanic group and Indo -Iranian group, also comparing their daughter languages English language versus Kurdish language. Section three shows the origin of prefix (hu) as a similar morpheme between English and Kurdish languages, and giving examples as cognates between them and Avestan language. The last part is section four ; this section is about results and finally, the study points out some conclusions.

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Section: Prefix { Hu } As a Cognate Morphemementioning

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“…The last advise is humata, {hu} meant good and mata meant thinking/ thought, the combined morphemes meant good thought/ good idea, the last morpheme is not same in Modern Kurdish, but changed to matal means riddle or thinking, the second hypothesis is meshk (brain/ mental) 4 .…”

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Prefix (hu) as a Cognate Morpheme in Old English and Avestan

Hamawandy¹

2015

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“…OE brēad and its cognates have received three main etymological explanations, which associate them with the concepts of brewing and breaking , as well as the production of grain (cp. Liberman & Mitchell 1993: 59–62; Kluge 2011: s.v. Brot ):…”

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Reassessing the semantic history of OEbrēad/ MEbrēd

Pons‐Sanz¹

2016

English Language and Linguistics

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Our etymological understanding of PDE bread has been influenced, to a considerable extent, by Otto Jespersen's comment that ‘An Englishman cannot thrive or be ill or die without Scandinavian words; they are to the language what bread and eggs are to the daily fare.’ This article analyses the evidence behind the possibility that PDE bread might represent a Norse-derived semantic loan, i.e. that OE brēad acquired the meaning ‘bread’, which was more frequently expressed by OE hlāf, because of the influence of its Viking Age Norse cognate (cp. OIc brauð ‘bread’). On the basis of an in-depth study of the attestations of OE brēad and hlāf and their early Middle English reflexes, as well as the use of their cognates in various Germanic languages, the article challenges the traditional view that OE brēad originally meant ‘piece, morsel of bread’ and concludes that Norse influence is not needed in order to account for the semantic history of PDE bread.

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An analytic dictionary of English etymology

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Prefix (hu) as a Cognate Morpheme in Old English and Avestan

Prefix (hu) as a Cognate Morpheme in Old English and Avestan

Reassessing the semantic history of OEbrēad/ MEbrēd

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