Description

• Title:
  Englisch mead, Polnisch miód und Hochdeutsch Met aus der historisch-vergleichenden Perspektive
• Creator:
  Rychło, Mikołaj
• Contributor:
  Universität Gdańsk, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Wita-Stwosza 51, 80-308 Gdańsk;
  mrychlo@wp.pl
• Description:
  The paper presents a diachronic analysis of Polish miód ‘honey’, English mead and German Met ‘mead’ conducted according to a new approach to contrastive studies.Taking into account potential cognates in other languages, the work aims to investigate the evolution of the common ancestor word *medh-u- in two lines of development: the Slavic leading to modern Polish, and the Germanic leading to modern English and High German. In order to understand these branching paths, the pertinent sound changes have been identified, which transformed the common proto-form. These developments are illustrated with further examples and, in the summary, ordered chronologically. The paper also discusses an old compound *medvědь (Polish niedźwiedź), which can be considered a taboo designation for a bear, and contains also the root *medъ ‘honey’.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2019.10.13;
  2018
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  German
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Germanica; 14
• Subject:
  Slavic-Germanic cognates;
  diachronic analysis;
  sound change;
  contrastive analysis;
  relic
• Identifier:
  1427-9665;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/30596 ;
  2449-6820;
  10.18778/1427-9665.14.06
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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